this is that thing where they are trying to make a drug that causes extreme time dilation right?
so they would restrain you for 8 hours and give you a shot and the shot would cause you to experience the passage of time so slowly that you are driven mad
and then they taper you off it at the end of the day
ten thousand percent psycho shit
Its stated goal is just internment. They're literally just ghettos and nothing else.
What if we built the Torment Nexus, but it wasn't a hyperbolic satire of the banal evil of tech bros but rather an actual, physical Torment Nexus?
This will never happen because then the US loses its source of slave labor
This is the thing leftists are wrong about the most often I think. In prison, access to work is a privilege. It marks time, gets you commissary, breaks up the boredom a little, keeps guards off your back, earns parole.
Prisoners want to work.
Many of them don't get to.
Prisons aren't plantations, they're ghettos. Concentrations of undesirables separated just for the purpose of separation. Couple that with Covid, lack of medical care, and guard beatings, the US prison system is an anti-black, anti-brown genocide.
The labor is almost incidental. If it was just about labor they could bring back coolies and the bracero program.
Shyamalan twist ending: The drug doesn't do shit they just give it to bourgeois criminals and let them out after a day
"Hard Time" S4E19
This episode is kind of disappointing because it was originally 2 episodes about imprisonment and PTSD respectively, but they got mashed together in the writer's room.
Also "Ex Post Facto" from Voyager S1E8 (though slightly different, Tom Paris gets the final memories of the person he was accused of killing implanted into his brain so he could relive his "victim's" final moments over and over again.
help people with terminal illnesses live out their life in a matter of days? nah, we use it for torture
Its pseudo-science bullshit. Basically just "We're going to drug you into a haze such that you can't coherently tell time and then tell everyone you've been trapped in a Mind Prison for A 1000 Years spooky noises!" to convince gullible media consumers that Next Generation Prisons will be even crueler than modern day ones.
The reality will be some grifter bringing in $10B in federal grants to build a Prison Of The Future that never gets past elaborate blueprints. This, alongside a Tesla-style Hyperloop Prison Solution that's just a bunch of cheap real estate with a barbed wire fence around it.
Well, I assume you would just perceive time going so slow that you wouldn't be able to move, wouldn't see the people around you move, and your mind would perceive that amount of time as 1000 years, slowly running out of things to think about, pontificate or notice, growing wretched from the isolation, the lack of control. Basically, its hell in a chemical.
I think that would require your brain to actually run at 1000x its normal speed if that makes sense.
Your brain can't process information that quickly. I can't imagine this hypothetical torture drug gives you supernatural mind powers.
Spend all your time reading and educating yourself
The prison industrial complex is making some reforms there right now. Tough luck. :capitalist-laugh:
What's the point if it doesn't rehabilitate someone? What does 1000 years of imprisonment do except psychologically destroy someone?
NOTE: I am not implying that 1000 years of imprisonment would be justified if it DID rehabilitate someone. I just don't get the point. I guess cruelty is the point.
Cruelty and sadism are about half the point of the US penal system, and the other half is slave labor. Like there is no more complexity than that. Anything positive that happens in prison is either an accident or an oversight.
If you give me 1000 years to read books in 8.5 hours I might actually become a competent revolutionary.
Like seriously has anyone thought about the implications of what torturing someone for 1000 years in the space of 8.5 hours would do to that person? In 8.5 hours you're giving that person 1000 years of time to think about exactly how they're going to kill you when their 8.5 hours are up.
It's a really stupid fucking idea. One that could be used for good because the idea of being able to experience slowed down time like that for learning would be genuinely huge for humans. But of course the first thought these fuckheads have is how they can use it for torture.
In 8.5 hours you’re giving that person 1000 years of time to think about exactly how they’re going to kill you when their 8.5 hours are up.
I'm pretty sure a person would be more likely to come out of 1,000 years of imprisonment as a gibbering, broken shell of a person than as an angry, violent revenge-machine.
