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perhaps im tripping...
I think the OP could be on to something here.....Aldous also comes from Britain or the UK as so started MXE....weird.....scary even.....combine this with the notion that in the year 2012 there's supposed to be major paradigm shifts(some say armageddon) .
Most of these replies are fairly missing the boat of the topic.
I've read Brave New World only three times, which imo is not enough. The point of 'Soma' which in the early 20th century, before the advent of so many chemical discoveries and the eminent Shulgin himself, was to illustrate the concept that governments would use something to keep people happy and content to be fitting into the machine of Government.
He nailed it for discussion purposes, but many people have tried guessing at the reality of such a chemical.
the movie equilibrium had some sort of prozac analogue as the daily dosing regimen for perfect society (one of christian bale's good performances btw).
as far as I'm concerned MXE only lacks one thing to fit A. Huxleys vision--a sedating element.
In fact i had a bump before deciding to write this and am very awake...alas, I digress down my own tangents...
MXE nails every other element: mild opiate receptor activity, antidepressant properties, socialbility. It really is one of those 'mold dose to desired experience' compounds as intimated by Huxley.
I highly respect the man and his bringing the intellectual side of things to merge with psychedelics via his well documented mescaline experiences in Heaven and Hell/Doors of Perception.
If you don't think MXE comes Damn close to his vision, you may need to re-read/interpret the book or perhaps your doing it wrong/ your neurochemistry is highly different.
the drug has existed for decades, the intoxicant of the masses, a diversion from reality, a false world of stable controlled emotions
it is called television.
True.
I read an interesting book called Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman. In the preface, Postman points out that 1984 came and went, and Orwell's vision never materialized, but something more insidious is occurring, which Huxley saw coming a long time ago. While Orwell warned that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression, Huxley realized that no Big Brother would be necessary. According to Postman, Huxley predicted that "people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think."
Orwell feared that books would be banned; Huxley feared that there would be no need because nobody would want to read books anyway. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us; Huxley that the populace would drown themselves in a sea of triviality and irrelevance.
MXE is no super drug. It makes you feel tipsy in low doses, or completely dissociated, restless and infinitesimal in high doses.
My cents.