This clipfrom the 1972 filmFuture Shockdepicts a valet de chambre of the future starting his Clarence Shepard Day Jr. with intelligence quotient pills and anti - depressant electrical shock .
A number of years from now , perhaps when a person gets up in the morning and has to take the drug to bring his intelligence quotient up to the appropriate degree , slap on the battery pack so that whenever he experience grim he can press a lever tumbler and turn on electric stimulus which delights him a footling bit .
This post originally appeared atPaleofuture.com .

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