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.
While we’re discussing dystopian sci-fi happy pills, I just want to mention The Giver. In that book, people are given drugs after they hit puberty, to suppress sexual desire and other emotions