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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

The only science fiction in 1984 by Orwell is that there is a drug that could make you "Happy"

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The only science fiction in 1984 by Orwell is that there is a drug that could make you "Happy"

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

Edit: Sigh… I got the dystopia wrong. Apparently everyone is apathetic in 1984 of their own free will and just drink, smoke and do morphine.

Brave New World is apathy through euphoria through soma.
Which yeah, drugged euphoria is not happiness.

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Thought this too. Soma. No idea why ive remembered that so long, I never even finished BNW and put it down almost a decade ago

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