Steven Kotler on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/steven_kotler Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2006 2006-05-15T05:05:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo ‘Scanning’ the Darkness of Our War on Drugs http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060514_scanner_darkly/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060514_scanner_darkly/ cyberspace, drugs, dystopia, internet, movie, novels, robots, scanner darkly, science fiction,

In this summer’s most talked-about movie, “A Scanner Darkly,” Keanu Reeves stars as an undercover narcotics agent losing his grip on reality in an America that has lost the war on drugs. True, the film is a warning call, but might it also inadvertently channel us toward the very dystopia it is warning against?
This article ran in May, but we’re trotting it out again because the movie just hit theaters this week.

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