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.
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.
There are drugs that can make you happy or emotionally numb. They tend to have different effects for different people, but I can definitely imagine science plausibly making a drug that makes everybody happy or emotionally numb. For me, marijuanna makes me emotionally numb and laugh at inappropriate times.