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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[–] 64 points 10 months ago (9 children)

I’m afraid you’re confusing it with Brave New World

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Yes this. And is a drug that makes you happy really science fiction? There are plenty that work on dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin receptors. Though I suppose happiness is something more nebulous and complex than a handful of chemicals.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 10 months ago

    Yeah sorry, the drug in 1984 is apparently just morphine and drinking yourself to death.

    Wild how they both are so dystopian but 1984 is just straight up political fiction with like no SciFi and my brain was trying to add more

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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?!<

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months 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.

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