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.

  • Codilingus@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I’m about to finish reading 1984 for the first time.

    Spoiler:

    !Maybe they mean the drugs Winston is given after he is taken by the thought police?!<

    • Krauerking@lemy.lolOP
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, i rembered him going to the prole neighborhood and for some reason always put that into brave new world context from the apathy and squalor.

      Plus definitely not a lack of drugs in 1984 just far more mundane.