Tag: addiction
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The Alchemist’s Lever
Right. So you want to grease the rails for a margin-lift. A classic maneuver. But you don’t just announce it. That’s brute-force. This is social archeology. You’re not raising prices; you’re re-engineering the consumer’s reality-tunnel. The goal is a psychic event in the customer’s limbic system. The click. The feeling that they’ve outsmarted the system,…
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The Poppy Index
Opium is a bureaucracy of the flesh. A ledger. A meticulous clerk with a pen of black tar ink, scratching endless entries into the neural book. It does not create—it records. A meticulous hand. A totalitarian librarian, bent over his desk, stamping “APPROVED” on each incoming sensory impression, filing away the vast detritus of human…