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Super king burgers, reality TV, NFL, wrestling, facebook, MTV, in essence all pop culture is SOMA of nowadays soylent, youtube, hacker news, reddit, 4chan and

• stplsd 13y ago
  Of course, just different variates of soma: one for omega, other for alpha. And other varieties of soma for all people in between, nothing new here.
  • gohrt 13y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_of_Market,_San_Francisco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_of_Market,_San_Francisco
  • Helpful_Bunny 13y ago
    I would to a lot of soul searching if you even imagine that the alpha of this world is "HN, Reddit...". Try Delta+ Gamma-. A well kept secret by Condé Nast is how young / low on the wage curve their readers are compared to others in the same professions. Alpha ‎(“the upper class”)‎ ‎Beta ‎(“the second upper class”)‎ ‎Gamma ‎(“the middle class”)‎ ‎Delta ‎(“the second lower class”)‎ ‎Epsilon ‎(“the lower class”)‎ ‎Double-Plus ‎(“the superior subdivision among Alphas”)‎ ‎Plus ‎(“the superior subdivision among Alphas, Betas, Gammas or Deltas, but inferior to Double-Plus”)‎ ‎Minus ‎(“the inferior subdivision among Alphas, Betas, Gammas or Deltas”)‎ ‎savage ‎(“a person outside the integrated portions of society, and therefore separate from all classes”)‎ Since we're referencing Huxley, I'd recommend "Island". And for everyone jumping on this dystopian bandwagon, I'd recommend "Stand on Zanzibar" as far more accurate.
    • krichman 13y ago
      I guess Epsilon reads something like Yahoo! Answers or celebrity tweets? What do Alpha or Beta classes read?
      • rdl 13y ago
        AOPA magazine. Maybe The Economist at the lower end?