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The Shock Doctrine

The electroshock treatment actually benefits some patients, and is used to this day, though with a different name, since Hollywood made it an icon of inhuman methods — the lobotomy, on the other hand, was truly a stupid procedure and is no longer used.

Much the same, some of what they present in the short film above is slightly exaggerated. But it’ worth watching anyway. [via Posthuman Blues]

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