This programming of soldiers with drugs in analogous to the programming of computers. Imagine your immune system programmed against VD, viruses, bacteria and various toxins; your body with attached bionic parts and eye inserts; your brain hard-wired to a mechanical associate; your mind drugged psychoprogrammed against stress, fear, altitude, depths, heat, cold and fatigue; yourself continuously connected and monitored by the micro-environment protected by autonomous and slaved weapon systems, and controlling vast resources in destructive power and information manipulation, You are a cyborg soldier.

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- Chris Hables Gray, The Cyborg Soldier: The US military and the post-modern warrior.  p63. in Cyborg Worlds: the military information society.(1989)

the biological and psychological control of the body thought such encloseure stems from the need to create things that are qualitatively identical that can be modified by degree (quantity) to facilitate integration into the production system. the natural limitations of the biological body must thus undergo a possess of standardisation so as not to form a weak link, however as with all capital accumulation dead labour threatens to over power living labour, leaving us unable to valorise this amassed dead labour into value by disconnecting us with the source of value itself - metabolism. 

(via marxandsparks)

(Source: e-schatology)