One in 10 Americans take such antidepressants as Prozac and Paxil. Among those in their 40s and 50s, it's 23 percent. Maybe that's why we're so passive.
Like the blissed-out soma-sucking drones of Huxley's "Brave New World," we must be too drugged to feel, much less express, rage. How else to explain that furious mobs haven't burned the banks to the ground?
Earlier this month, as the media ginned up empty speculation about Hillary Clinton's presidential prospects, and wallowed in nuclear cognitive dissonance — Iran, which doesn't have nukes and says it doesn't want them, is repeatedly called a grave threat worth going to war over, while North Korea, which does have them and won't stop threatening to turn the U.S. West Coast into a "sea of fire," is dismissed as empty bluster, nothing to worry about — the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve released the details of the settlement between the Obama administration and the big banks over the illegal foreclosure scandal.