the intoxicated as acquisition stock
The Subjects for suitability had to be passively undefended enough to be acquired publicly with quiet, yet not damaged in the brains or under the influence of the many of the district’s intoxicant compounds.
Context
The neighborhood's using population appraised as raw material: undefended enough to grab quietly, but not so wrecked by the district's intoxicants as to be spoiled for the test. It is the street bottom seen through a procurement lens — the drugged rendered as inventory, one cage's victims sorted for suitability by the operators of another.