{"id":4881,"date":"2015-01-26T07:44:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2015-01-26T07:44:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:44:42","slug":"pleasure-vs-pain-in-the-programmed-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4881","title":{"rendered":"Pleasure vs. pain in the programmed society"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2015\/01\/pleasure-vs-pain-in-programmed-society.html\">Pleasure vs. pain in the programmed society<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i>\u201cIn experiments on mice, scientists rewired the circuits of the brain and changed the animals\u2019 bad memories into good ones\u2026The researchers said they were able to do the opposite as well\u2014change a pleasurable memory in mice into one associated with fear.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2014\/08\/scientists-make-momentous-advance-brainwashing\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Drum, Mother Jones, 8\/27\/14<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2012\/03\/1984-v-brave-new-world.html\" target=\"_blank\">Aldous Huxley once wrote to George Orwell<\/a>:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>[The world\u2019s rulers\u2019] lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. In other words, I feel that the nightmare of\u00a0<i>Nineteen Eighty-Four\u00a0<\/i>is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in<i>Brave New World<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i><\/i>Brain researchers believe they have the future of the world in their hands. For example, they assume that one day, they will be able to turn on or turn off circuits that induce pleasure and pain in humans. Easily, reliably, precisely.<\/p>\n<p>If humans seek to find pleasure and avoid pain, or if they pursue goals that deliver pleasure as a side effect\u2026why wait? Why go through the process of striving at all? Why not cut to the bottom line immediately and experience pleasure?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">In an age where instant reward, entitlement, flickering attention, and entertainment are paramount, why not stimulate the brain and give people what they want?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pleasure vs. pain in the programmed society \u201cIn experiments on mice, scientists rewired the circuits of the brain and changed the animals\u2019 bad memories into good ones\u2026The researchers said they were able to do the opposite as well\u2014change a pleasurable memory in mice into one associated with fear.\u201d\u00a0(Kevin Drum, Mother Jones, 8\/27\/14) Aldous Huxley once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2934,2932,2933,2859,655],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-memories","tag-pleasure-vs-pain","tag-programmed-society","tag-programming","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4882,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}