Differentiating ways of becoming and reaching peak happiness have increased over time and with new technologies, these ways are becoming more and more constant. Dealing with issues like sadness and anxiety are confronted by happiness and exposure to stimuli that elicit a positive response. Chasing the stimuli, though, can force and find ways of becoming happy are shifting towards increasingly unorthodox methods; through drugs, technology, and false relationships, temporary happiness can be supplemented and found, but at what cost? In his iteration of creating a satirical piece, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, develops a plot of an adolescent search for stopgap happiness through stimuli such as drugs, false relations, and other technologies.
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Delving into and explaining the mystery, miracle drug, soma, as well as its effects, Huxley creates a sense of importance around the drug and shows its effects and imprints on happiness as well as the way it can be found, artificially through a mass-produced medicine, rather than a sacrifice or hardship. Happiness, promoted by temporarily stimulating drugs, is delivering more harmful effects on the general human population with their increase in use and decrease in human authenticity. The National Institutes of Health has provided through studies and other public promotions that a professional, clinical consensus has emerged that drugs are unsuitable forms of happiness. Serotonin-replacement drugs have caused an increased dependency due to the continuous desire to chase the feelings. On these drugs, contributor to the National Institute of Health, Bryant Stone, a substance use doctor at Johns Hopkins University, published an article concluding, “When individuals have difficulty experiencing positive emotions from non-substance-related activities (e.g., exercising), they may seek to experience positive emotions from substances“
Delving into and explaining the mystery, miracle drug, soma, as well as its effects, Huxley creates a sense of importance around the drug and shows its effects and imprints on happiness as well as the way it can be found, artificially through a mass-produced medicine, rather than a sacrifice or hardship. Happiness, promoted by temporarily stimulating drugs, is delivering more harmful effects on the general human population with their increase in use and decrease in human authenticity. The National Institutes of Health has provided through studies and other public promotions that a professional, clinical consensus has emerged that drugs are unsuitable forms of happiness. Serotonin-replacement drugs have caused an increased dependency due to the continuous desire to chase the feelings. On these drugs, contributor to the National Institute of Health, Bryant Stone, a substance use doctor at Johns Hopkins University, published an article concluding, “When individuals have difficulty experiencing positive emotions from non-substance-related activities (e.g., exercising), they may seek to experience positive emotions from substances“