They're not even superficially better- a lot of them are worse.
And, at least when they called it electroshock everybody knew it was Russian roulette with the prize being a vegetable.
And, at least when they called it electroshock everybody knew it was Russian roulette with the prize being a vegetable.
If a person complains too much, or becomes a nuisance to society, or disruptive, then they are penalized and sentenced to a "virtual incarceration" by means of drugs and clinical monitoring.
Psychiatric drugs were explicitly developed as a replacement for confinement and physical restraints. The asylum system was shut down deliberately once the technology was in place to turn them out on the streets.
All those homeless you see today are actually imprisoned and being punished. The apparatus is simply invisible to you.