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"How long before there’s an injection for your appetites, your vices? A weekly anti-avarice shot? Can Pharma cure your sloth, lust, wrath...? Is this how we fix climate change—injecting harmony instead of hoping for it?"
https://www.wired.com/story/new-drug-switched-off-appetite-mounjaro/
Melancholy about successful technology (of which Ford has a nice nuanced version I'm not taking issue with) is very striking to me:
we don't really want our problems solved, or we only want em solved in filmic ways - the big speech, the big march, the bad guys usurped, 0 profit
Ford is "sometimes angry, sometimes ashamed, and often grateful" for the drug,
the sticking points being his years of wasted effort and suffering, and his journalistic unease with technical solutions to human problems (particularly one bucketed as a social problem for so long).