If you are not staring at your phone, tv, or computer.. and you are a dreamer, or a thinking man like Huxley.. they will all point and say ‘look, look, he is not one of us’ then they will gawk at you like the savage who had real emotions in the brave new world.
One day soon.. we are getting close.
The routine drugging of people who don’t fit an idealized stereotype is certainly in that direction.
You’re an introvert? You may have social anxiety, can we push these antidepressants?
You’re grieving the loss of a spouse of 50-60 years? You may be grocery shopping and going to church, but you’re still crying after six months. Can I offer pills?
I defended my grandmother on that one. That if you were together 50+ years, grieving for 2% of that time or one year is NORMAL. And it wasn’t like she was suicidal or non-functional.