Timeline for In the novel Snow Crash, why would anyone willingly take that drug?
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| Apr 16, 2021 at 18:03 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft | Logic is the wrong approach here. Smoking has very limited positive effects and a horrible cost–benefit ratio as opposed to other drugs. Yet it prevails. | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 6:52 | vote | accept | jsm | ||
| Mar 27, 2018 at 22:36 | comment | added | gowenfawr | @PaulJohnson if I may quibble, the Metavirus is the multi-instantiated virus targeted at the human OS; Snow Crash is the particular weaponized versions (physical and virtual) of the Metavirus propogated by L. Bob Rife. | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 22:34 | answer | added | gowenfawr | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 8:26 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | @Radhil The point of Snow Crash is that it is an information virus targeted at the human "operating system". As such it can be spread in many ways, including video, drugs, blood and sex. | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 8:24 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | I couldn't find it on a quick scan just now, but I'm pretty sure that someone in the book mentions that the "drug" version is mixed with cocaine to make it physically addictive. | |
| Mar 26, 2018 at 23:44 | comment | added | Radhil | Uh... the titular Snow Crash was a digital pseudocode masked as a video file in VR designed to crash the minds of those who could understand it. It killed the minds of those who it targeted, they were left vegetables. No one took it repeatedly. The climax of the book was literally Hiro trying to stop it from affecting a large concert in cyberspace that would have been vulnerable to it. | |
| Mar 26, 2018 at 23:09 | comment | added | can-ned_food | So, my point being: if you need to ask, then it was probably never described and probably never will be. | |
| Mar 26, 2018 at 23:08 | comment | added | can-ned_food | We are never told exactly what effects Substance D, from A Scanner Darkly, gives its users either. I think because it doesn't matter: not so much because those details would distract the story i.e. use of a drug aside from the effects or regardless of the effects, but because the story is about use of a substance in absence of the effects. The users have developed both behavioral and physical dependencies on the thing simply to keep them going. Look at how the phrase “chasing the dragon” has come to mean continued use of a mood–altering substance even when it fails to do so. | |
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| Mar 26, 2018 at 22:38 | history | asked | jsm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |