Pharmaceutical Topography
The pill has its own ontology. Its scored bisection is not just a pharmaceutical convenience but a goddamn epistemological event horizon. Fifteen milligrams. Twice daily. Scored precisely down the middle like some anal-retentive cartographer’s dream of psychological demarcation. “Non-addictive,” they said—bureaucratic-speak for “we haven’t yet quantified the metaphysical dependency.” Let me tell you about dependency. […]