LSD

[jbor]

on 8/10/01 9:23 PM, lorentzen-nicklaus at lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
wrote:

> 
>> So the picture that is built up (for me, at least) is of a psychiatrist who
>> prescribes "tranquillizers" to bored housewives in order to pacify them
>> emough so that they will participate in his government-sponsored experiments
>> with hallucinogenic substances.
> 
> 
> "bored housewifes" do not need to be "pacified", do they? & then
> tranquillizers and psychedelica don't mix well; actually they use valium etc.
> in clinics to get people off from trips which do not end or became "horror".
> 
> kai  

Well, more often than not the boredom those housewives were feeling was
actually caused by hyperactivity and an excess of leisure time -- all those
electrical appliances and whitegoods in the home, and the supermarkets --
and so the tranq's would have helped to settle them down and resign them to
their "lot" in life. TV soapies, Tupperware parties and midday tippling
served much the same purposes as the Valium I guess, along with whatever
regular visits to the shrink, the tennis club, affairs with the gardener etc
that they could afford.

But my point was not that Herr Doktor wanted Oedipa to mix the downer with
the upper (though some hard-case users do do this, I'd add), but that the
tranq. would have slowed her down, lessened her resistance, and made her
more amenable to his suggestion that she join the hallucinogen program.

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