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Part Two: Capturing the Counterculture

Capturing the Counterculture

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What record labels achieved manually in hip-hop—identifying, redirecting, and commodifying authentic expression—would become the template for digital control. Just as executives learned to transform street culture into profitable products, algorithms would soon automate this process at global scale.

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Empowered by the State, Condemned by the Crisis: The Purdue Paradox

Empowered by the State, Condemned by the Crisis: The Purdue Paradox

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Just as taxpayer-funded research paved the way for the Covid-19 pandemic through gain-of-function experiments in Wuhan, the government’s blind spot—or complicity—in fostering addiction treatment models fueled by profit underscores its failure to protect its citizens.

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