The p-terminal / Brandon experiment analogy

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texture · pre-dawn, 1 May YDAU

When: pre-dawn, 1 May YDAU
What: Steeply narrates the (Canadian) Brandon Psychiatric Center program that discovered brain "p-terminals" — pleasure-electrode implantation so total that lever-pressing animals ignored food and mates and died; young Canadians reportedly lined up around the block to volunteer, testing "chillingly average." Both nations secretly shut it down. Steeply offers it as the analogy for the Entertainment ("what it is he's proposing to let out of the cage"). Marathe parries, coolly amused, glossing the p-terminals as "The Department of Euphoria, so to speak, within the human brain," while privately touching the memory of his own pacemaker-killed father.