Huxley was looking forward to our own time when Christianity and the offer of life eternal in Paradise restored had finally disappeared from the hearts of men and women with the consequence that fear of death would fill men's hearts with dread and terror. Thus, Soma would make life easier by allowing people to forget the approach of death.
In our own time, WEF guru Yuval Hariri has recommended the widespread use of psychedelic drugs to make life easier for the great numbers of useless people... made useless by technology and Artificial Intelligence. Having said that, he now wants a mass extinction event to deal with the useless people problem.
Do you have a link or can you remember where you heard/saw a discussion of it?
WEF guru Yuval Hariri ...ping
It wouldn’t surprise me if whatever drug Yuval Harin wants people to take, that it speeds up the odds of death imperceptibly so that nobody links the death with the drug.