Sociopharmaneutics – explainations of imaginary drugs administered to entire societies in a near, near future one across from ours.
New ticks – new habits or behaviours that are beneficial to someone, something – all of us, perhaps.
#1 – ECD: Ecologically Compulsive Disorder
Introduced into the dwindling water supplies of megacities across the world, it imbues their hyperconsumer populations with the obsessive need to sort their waste into the correct recycling bins, syphon their bathwater into the toilet cistern for re-use, and unplug devices from the mains even when on standby – or any one of 48 other possible settings dependent on your ecosystem’s priorities.
Stay tuned for more exciting biochemical behavioural manipulations of the entire human race!