In Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel, "Brave New World," the working classes are kept in docile submission by a diet of drugs that render them universally happy.
They are harassed on one side by socialist reformers and on the other kept in docile ignorance by a clergy that urges submission and acceptance of this world's hardships as the only way to avoid hatred and bloodshed.
"Don't you know that's exactly what the capitalists and Jews want you to do, so they can keep you docile?" Not knowing exactly what the hell a capitalist was, or what "docile" meant, my nervous instinct was to take a swift draw from the joint and involuntarily cough smoke straight into his face.
Debt, incidentally, is a great way to keep people docile.
The memory of it will be enough to keep me docile next time I wait for a table.
Long story short, I managed to hoard the meds they'd been feeding me to keep me docile, and once I felt alert enough I led a revolt to break us out of the compound.
Killers were feared and admired and on average had three times as many offspring as men who had no blood on their hands.Mr Chagnon describes Yanomamo men as "intensely jealous", routinely beating their wives to keep them docile, and shooting arrows into their limbs as punishment for real or imagined infractions.
McQueen shows that slavery is, first and foremost, a matter of dominion over the slave's body — that the economic and legal concept of owning another person implies the unchecked authority to kill, rape, maim, wound, torture, and terrorize, and that only the constant threat of death and agony keeps people docile in their enslavement.
Blake explains how Farrell underwent a paradigm shift that many in the movement compare with the scene in "The Matrix" in which, after swallowing a red pill, the hero realizes that "the world he's inhabited … is merely an illusion designed to keep him docile and enslaved".
