Overdosing On Life In Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Overdosing on Life All a person has to do is take this one pill, inhale this smoke one time, stick this needle into the vein and empty the syringe one time. All it takes is one time because after all a person is just wanting to feel something, whether it be happiness, a rush, or something to take the edge off. A person will do whatever it takes to get a rush: pills, injections, smoking, or anything that can get the adrenaline pumping through the veins so fast they cannot even begin to think straight. All of their problems seem to drift away from their mind. In the novel Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley takes the reader through this society where all of the residents are divided into different social classes, genetically engineered,
and where most rely on a drug called Soma that gives them the bliss they strive for. "Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinate" (Huxley 53), Mustapha says of soma. It's arguably the best tool the government has for controlling the population. It sedates, calms, and most importantly distracts a person from realizing that there's actually something very, very wrong with the society in which they reside. Soma is considered an opioid in this novel, so is it connected to the real world growing opioid crisis? Growing up in today’s society, a person is exposed to more than just opioids. In today’s society the drug of choice is either marijuana or a type of opioid. Unlike the book, people tend to over dose rapidly on the opioids that they are consuming today. “With 64,000 overdose deaths last year nationwide — a staggering 22 percent jump over the previous year — it is little wonder that overdoses, the leading cause of death among Americans under 50, are reducing life expectancy” (Seelye).
and where most rely on a drug called Soma that gives them the bliss they strive for. "Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinate" (Huxley 53), Mustapha says of soma. It's arguably the best tool the government has for controlling the population. It sedates, calms, and most importantly distracts a person from realizing that there's actually something very, very wrong with the society in which they reside. Soma is considered an opioid in this novel, so is it connected to the real world growing opioid crisis? Growing up in today’s society, a person is exposed to more than just opioids. In today’s society the drug of choice is either marijuana or a type of opioid. Unlike the book, people tend to over dose rapidly on the opioids that they are consuming today. “With 64,000 overdose deaths last year nationwide — a staggering 22 percent jump over the previous year — it is little wonder that overdoses, the leading cause of death among Americans under 50, are reducing life expectancy” (Seelye).