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In the Anals of Destopan Literature, the two names stand as a great censorship of a warning: George Orol and Aldos Huxley. Their views, which are often considered as anti -predictions, jointly create a comprehensive map of the modern state. This is a condition that is not through the overthrows, but by the invisible hidden hidden.
In 1932, Elidos Huxley published the brave New World, a novel that not just warned about a dark future, but diagnosed the emerging pathology in his childhood. Huxele predicts slavery, not by the wrongdoers, but through temptations. The what he imagined was not implemented by fear, but by happiness, with the pleasure of entertaining, relief and pharmaceutical happiness. It was engineered to be happy with the citizens of the world – it was mentioned by drug Soma, which was entertained by “Feliz” (films that mobilize all the senses) and is subject to birth to accept its role without any complaint.
There was no older brother and no ministry reality – no need. In the Huxley world, people did not get up because they had no reason. He was very satisfied, very insensitive, very busy to see the slow harvest of their freedom. The oppression was made internal, dressed in a warm brightness of comfort and artificial happiness.
George andval, in 1984, offered an anti -vision, writing about two decades after two decades. Its dustopia was ruled by surveillance, censorship and violent oppression. Popolysis was crushed in the weight of a capability to control the ‘truth’ through population and history manipulation. And in the world of the country, freedom was destroyed by power. In Huxley, it died by neglect.
As the Media Theorest Nile Postman noted once, the two were more prescription. “And Well feared that what we hate would destroy us. Huxley feared that what we like would destroy us.” Now, almost a century later, the Huxley world is not on the horizon – this is the reality of our daily.
We live in an era where the pursuit of happiness is no longer an event but the institution. From the processed excitement of the junk food to the compulsion of the thumb on the smartphone screen, modernity has re -engineered the human condition. In the traditional sense, apparatus is not cruel. It does not force, it is seduced.
The architecture of this system is a neuro chemical. Our devices don’t just inform – they are encouraged. Social media platforms, short form videos, algorithmic information are not neutral tools. They are a precision engineer to hijack our brain prize circulation, flooding it with dopamine. As Stanford University psychologist Dr. Anna Lambke and author of Dopamine Nation argue: “We’re not accustomed to our phones – we’re addicted to Dopamine.” This addiction is not accidental. This is an engineer.
Lambke’s dissertation is deeply disturbing. In a world that is satisfied with satisfaction, even the mild pains feel unbearable. We are allergic to anger, unable to sit without stimulation, unable to engage with real life’s depth and complexity. Result? Not happy, but emotional apathy, spiritual deficiency and a wonderful anxiety that revolves around every useless moment.
This is not just a psychological crisis – it is a civilization.
Thinkers like Bong Chol Han describe our era as “Burnout Society”. It is not a civilization of atmosphere, but more stimulated, not from physical wages but permanent contact. We’re not working much, we are more notices. Similarly, a former Google ethics, Tristan Harris, described the tech industry as closing in the “race to the bottom of the brain system”, which is fighting to get the most of our focus in any way-often at the expense of our welfare, seriousness and sovereignty.
Our ancestors, who no longer have access to luxury that we take for our own developed, developed techniques that are now re -emerging with a new hurry. Fasting, prayer, loneliness, silence – this was not a denial, but a task of freedom.
In the era of surveillance capitalism, Shushana Zebov, exposes that our future functions and predictions are the most intimate behavior of our DATA data – clicks, scrolls, hesitating – how to be cut and sold as data. It is a new form of power, which is used not by state apparatus but by the market, which is designed not to serve, but to manipulate.
In this system, we are no longer citizens, who are eligible for reflection and disagreement. We are consumers of content, products, dopamine. Silence is considered as a defect. The discomfort is medical. Avoid isolation. The one who once formed the opportunity has become a wage. And what excuse as freedom is a prepared food of the pacement.
We are scrolling ourselves.
The consequences are cultural, not individual. What we are witnessing is not only slowly of the power of personal strength, but also to eliminate the features that maintain a free and thinking society. In our comfortable pursuit – without any interface, quick responses and algorithmic convenience – we have abandoned both individual and sectarian sovereignty. The human soul, once after fraud in difficulties and contradictions, has now been faded with mastery, which is addicted to allergies with novelty and effort. The result is a population that is unable to sit with complexity or ambiguity. This is essential for both personal maturity and democratic dialogue.
Now we don’t feel deep. We swipe. The happiness of creation, the grief of loss, the sanctity of silence all are flat under the permanent barrage of renovation. Our focus, once a place of moral and spiritual agency, has become the most competitive item of the digital era. In this economy of focus, depth is a responsibility, a currency disturbed.
We do not withstand the foolishness of existence. We remove it. Instead of boating with existential questions that bother and impress those who have been thinking for centuries – why am I here? What is the inconvenience for what? What is happiness beyond? – We drown them in fun. Surprisingly, we have trivia. At the place of mail, we have parts of the comments. The screen has become both altar and opium – which offers us everything, demands nothing and leaves us more empty.
Its implications go even further. The society of emotionally unconscious people cannot unite. When the feeling of sympathy is hurt, it is died with sympathy. When the citizen confronts constant disturbances, political engagement decreases. The oppression not only rises on fear but also on indifference. As there are public imagination agreements, so does collective resistance. When we eat our waking hours through the next event, the next script, the next hit of Dopamine, we stop dreaming of a better world.
In surrendering this slow weapon of anesthesia, freedom itself becomes meaningless, not because it is taken, but because it is no longer desired.
And yet – not all is lost.
Our ancestors, who now lacked access to luxury, which we take for our own developed, developed techniques that are now re -emerging with a new hurry. Fasting, prayer, loneliness, silence were not a move, but of freedom. They were trying to eliminate the soul with traps of happiness. Neuro science today acknowledged what mystical has taught for a long time: this meaning, not peace, is the basis of happiness.
It is not private to claim the agency again in the 21st century – this is a political process. This is to plug not only from the screen, but also from the architecture of distress. The discovery of this discomfort that leads to development, silence that shows autonomy, boredom that causes imagination.
So, if you feel restless, anxious, or indifferent – know: You’re not broken. What you feel is a quiet protest of the soul. This is not pathology. This is proof that anywhere, you remember what freedom is.
Your waiting wake -up call will not come on your phone as a ping. It will arrive again, quietly, from the inside, the last organs of self -styled secret: this is not freedom.
Author is a professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Beacon House National University, Lahore.
