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, their psych-profiles testing "chillingly average"; both nations secretly shut it down guns-drawn. Steeply offers it as the precedent-analogy for the Entertainment and for "just what it is he's proposing to let out of the cage."