"On average, she said it'd take about twenty years to condition an entire population for the better or (the more popular option) for the worse. The best active example she could think of that was applicable to the First World was consumerism. She said we've been taught to spend money on fruitless things for the sake of "entertainment" and "culture" so that two weeks later, that money will need to be made back. Then it clicked in my head, and I mumbled, 'So, on goes the machine.' And she replied, 'Further and furthur.'"
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down the yellow brick road
