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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I’m afraid you’re confusing it with Brave New World
Yes this. And is a drug that makes you happy really science fiction? There are plenty that work on dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin receptors. Though I suppose happiness is something more nebulous and complex than a handful of chemicals.
Feeling happy and being happy are 2 different things.
I agree, that's a good way to put it
This is how I meant it!
But definitely failed on the apathetic dystopian culture book when writing this.
Thought this too. Soma. No idea why ive remembered that so long, I never even finished BNW and put it down almost a decade ago
Yeah sorry, the drug in 1984 is apparently just morphine and drinking yourself to death.
Wild how they both are so dystopian but 1984 is just straight up political fiction with like no SciFi and my brain was trying to add more
I'm about to finish reading 1984 for the first time.
Spoiler:
Yeah, i rembered him going to the prole neighborhood and for some reason always put that into brave new world context from the apathy and squalor.
Plus definitely not a lack of drugs in 1984 just far more mundane.
Maybe the Chestnut tree was really just some sativa man.