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

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• OmegaMouse@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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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  • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Feeling happy and being happy are 2 different things.

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    • OmegaMouse@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I agree, that’s a good way to put it

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    • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is how I meant it!

      But definitely failed on the apathetic dystopian culture book when writing this.

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• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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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• Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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• Codilingus@sh.itjust.works ⁨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?!<

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨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.

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• BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe the Chestnut tree was really just some sativa man.

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