Odd, isn’t it? Almost the whole of modern medical research is dedicated to improving health in old age and extending the human life-span and we get more senility, not less. Extending it for what? We give them drugs to improve short-term memory, drugs to raise mood, drugs to increase appetite. They don’t need anything to make them sleep, that’s all they seem to do.
We work so hard to lengthen life but at what cost?
This is the 3rd word in less than 100 pages I have had to look up. I am not sure how much is due to the difference between American English and English English or how much is just due to the authors style.
The system has the merit of simplicity and gives the illusion of democracy to people who no longer have the energy to care how or by whom they are governed as long as they get what the Warden has promised: freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom from boredom.
How close are we coming to this already? Freedom from fear is the current goal, soon probably freedom from boredom.
Another word I have never run across. Wonder if I will ever find an apposite place to use the term.
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