In the short story, The Euphio Question by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., the author was criticizing the idea of escapism through the text. As the euphio was being tested by a small group of characters they were testing the machine’s ability to make them happy. The dictionary defines escapism as a tendency to seek distraction from unpleasant realities, which is what the character's goal was. They tried to use this machine to make them happy and forget about all their real world problems and just go into a state of bliss. Jus6t as well all the characters who even wandered into this room full of “happiness” ended up not caring for their bodies for at least two days, the idea of hunger even came up but blind minded people just shoved the ideas aside. “Mom, I’m kinda
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The characters felt ideally happy throughout the whole event thinking it was seemingly a blissful gathering of friends and others but it was not, they were seeking and hoping too much for a simple machine to give them perfect happiness that they neglected their surroundings and just sat there not knowing where the time was going. “I shuddered. ‘I’ll bet it’s Sunday morning’, I said… ‘Sunday morning? I walked in here on a Sunday night’ (226). Characters had been intoxicated by the signals that they forget what they were doing just seconds ago and began to not function properly. They performed reckless actions and ended up from their days of “happiness” to headaches and concussions, they might have even risked their entire lives if the euphio didn't stop and they didn't eat or drink. Vonnegut is demonstrating the issues with escaping reality, as people try and buy happiness evidence has proven people never end up with true happiness, it must be something that occurs naturally with people being aware of their actions and their own happiness, not a machine create
The characters felt ideally happy throughout the whole event thinking it was seemingly a blissful gathering of friends and others but it was not, they were seeking and hoping too much for a simple machine to give them perfect happiness that they neglected their surroundings and just sat there not knowing where the time was going. “I shuddered. ‘I’ll bet it’s Sunday morning’, I said… ‘Sunday morning? I walked in here on a Sunday night’ (226). Characters had been intoxicated by the signals that they forget what they were doing just seconds ago and began to not function properly. They performed reckless actions and ended up from their days of “happiness” to headaches and concussions, they might have even risked their entire lives if the euphio didn't stop and they didn't eat or drink. Vonnegut is demonstrating the issues with escaping reality, as people try and buy happiness evidence has proven people never end up with true happiness, it must be something that occurs naturally with people being aware of their actions and their own happiness, not a machine create