"He was ashamed of his jealousy and alternately made efforts of will and took soma to keep himself from feeling it" (Huxely 185).
Through consumer culture the citizens of the World State take drugs for anything that is wrong and this is great because you have people who are not always happy and when they are on soma suddenly everything is okay again. This drug has no side effects so the government doesnt have to deal with any addicts that just waste space; because all the drug addicts that might have wasted space take soma, so they are still able to work and be contempt with themselves. However, this society full of drug addicts is always just ignoring their problems by taking the beloved soma, but these people, just like the people in the real world that take drugs, degrade themselves to drugs all they ever know what to do is drugs. Having a consumer culture where it is okay to take drugs just to be happy is degrading the meaning of life. Life means so much more when you get through hardships with willpower and without having to rely on a drug that makes everything seem better.
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