Panopticon? More Like Origamicon
“The sporting editor had also given me $300 dollars in cash, most of which was already spent on extremely dangerous drugs. The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and a dozen raw amyls.” (Thompson, 4) Through this passage, Hunter S. Thompson clearly portrays what America would be like without the authority of drug enforcement laws and pharmacies. Pharmacies keep an automatic functioning of power as described by Michael Focault in his “Panopticon” theory. I will use the Science Direct Journal and Michael Focault’s Panopticism in “The Ways Of Reading” to substantiate my thesis.
Pharmacies do a lot more than insure an......
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