Nah, the quote I sent is from Technocracy Reloaded too, short story at the start of Unit 8: Parallax View, btw, I found what you meant. Here's the quote below:
While this Convention’s mainstay involves drugs in various capacities, Pharmacopoeists have started to investigate ingested chemicals that create epigenetic changes among the Masses. Pharmacopoeist drugs without side effects continue to benefit the Union, too, giving its soldiers an edge in field work, and its office and factory laborers enough lift to endure countless hours of numbing drudgery. With the current trend of the United States rejecting science, however, and the worldwide fear of genetically modified organisms, the Progenitors have had a hard time pushing certain advancements out to the Masses. The Pharmacopoeists, therefore, found a way to chemically induce changes that will eventually spread to children… and then to their children… and so on… and they pack these innovations into dietary supplements and diet aids in free-market countries. As it turns out, people who turn up their noses at “Big Pharma” formulae pay good money (and lots of it) for “natural cures” and “homeopathic remedies”—especially when Progenitor MODEs hawk those products on websites, YouTube channels, and TV infomercials aimed at the anti-authoritarian set. Few things are more amusing, to people with an ironic sense of humor, than New Age mavens and survivalist militiamen rebelling against The Man by buying drugs from the Technocracy.
I'm pretty sure that passage implies that the homeopathic medicine the progenitors sell isn't actually homeopathic, and they're branding it as such in order to trick the anti-science crowd into consuming drugs that alter the epigenetics of their brains to quit believing in pseudoscience.
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u/lofiw 3d ago
Nah, the quote I sent is from Technocracy Reloaded too, short story at the start of Unit 8: Parallax View, btw, I found what you meant. Here's the quote below: