"You wanna live in this lousy world, play it cool boy. Boy, boy, crazy boy, be COOL boy. Just play it cool boy, real cool. (boy, boy, crazy boy)."--"Cool", West Side Story.
"West Side Story - Cool (1961) HD". John Long. December 15, 2013.
"7 Telltale Signs You're Addicted To Caffeine". Mashed. July 13, 2018.
"Coffee In Chinese Medicine. Yin, Yang, Blood and Qi". Acupuncture-Points. May 18, 2021.
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This essay, which I read as the epilogue to Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudon (which the film by Ken Russel never delves into whatsoever) is an examination of addiction, socially-prescribed forms of social control such as alcohol and various other types of covert social engineering in order to enforce encoded social order dumbness and lack of momentum for the "lower classes" and to instill an entrenched "upper class" mentality through these various mechanisms of instilled and socially-accepted drug/mind control/propagandized forms of "entertainment" or chic but nevertheless harmful means of controlling the population into conformity or worse. THE EPILOGUE TO THE DEVILS OF LOUDON IS SIMPLY A CLASSIC THAT HAS NOT BEEN INCLUDED IN THE REPERTOIRE OF meaningful life-lesson literature on social programming and socialization (for the detriment of the many for the benefit of the few):
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