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Which yeah, drugged euphoria is not happiness.
We gotta get you the good stuff.
There are definitely drugs that make you happy.
I’m afraid you’re confusing it with Brave New World
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
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
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.
Tf you mean?
Ecstacy exists for real.
Yeah and that's not even a joke.
I'm gonna use more pretentious words just to reiterate the values of this succinct and correct comment.
Serotonergic drugs, also sometimes known as empathogens or entactogens (enhancing empathy and tactile sensation) have been shown to honestly be able to take care of depression terminally ill people have, for up to months, with a single dose.
Ofc there should be therapists as well, it's not as simple as giving someone unfamiliar drugs telling them to eat them and that's it. No for the terminally ill for instance you'd want a therapist there to help work out the experience of the session.
But for anyone somewhat healthy and young and looking to experience something like that, just go to a rave. Can't tell you which though, as stimulants also have the people who use dopaminergic drugs and those don't exactly make one happy.
Or just read up on what mdma is how to use it safely and look up some artist you like from the EDM scene (so that itd be higher chances of other people rolling as well) and go.
Genuinely the happiest nights of my life some of them. Some not as much, went a bit beyond therapy. Lol.
Rumor has it that molly is typically laced with some nasty shit these days.
Read the fucking book
Please read the fucking book
I did. I just misremembered the plot and hoped everyone was so apathetic cause drugs.
Sorry to have failed you.
This mea culpa is not quite as filling as it should be. Need some deep face down arse up genuflexion.
Just kidding.
The fact you owned the mistake is enough.
Both books are excellent
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