In Huxley's Brave New World one of the themes (I think) was that giving people unrestricted access to sex and happy pills would make them easy to control, and thus people could become pawns for whatever ends a dictatorship wanted.
Here we have an outbreak of Western hedonism in Russia, so it's interesting which way Putin will go. Absent the happy pills, I think Putin will clamp down on this sort of impulsiveness. Impulsiveness in one domain breeds it one other (political) domains.
What Russia and China fear most are Western ideas spreading beyond their control, and I expect an increase in censorship of the internet from them.
Here we have an outbreak of Western hedonism in Russia, so it's interesting which way Putin will go. Absent the happy pills, I think Putin will clamp down on this sort of impulsiveness. Impulsiveness in one domain breeds it one other (political) domains.
What Russia and China fear most are Western ideas spreading beyond their control, and I expect an increase in censorship of the internet from them.
