Keep you fat on empty calories and chemicals, keep you medicated through drugs -- including things like pot or SSRIs -- and keep you placated by ensuring that you are too exhausted to fight back just long enough to make you come to terms with their "new normal".
Its all meant to wear you out so you don't rebel.
Even more so to prevent people physically protesting and making demands.
Keep you fat on empty calories and chemicals, keep you medicated through drugs -- including things like pot or SSRIs -- and keep you placated by ensuring that you are too exhausted to fight back just long enough to make you come to terms with their "new normal".