So what, or who, is this so-called "society?" Is he some sort of wizard or almighty being who just points his magical wand at humans and puts spells on them? No, no, that can’t be it, although it can cause a typical teenage girl to wear a mini skirt instead of a baggy, raggedy pair of jeans. According to Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1998), society is defined as "the persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period." So that means society is you… and them… and even me. Alas

Anti-depressants, such as Paxil, Zoloft, and Prozac, are all medications prescribed to those patients who have been diagnosed with depression. Needless to say, these tablets fix the diagnosed "problem." But is there actually a problem? Anti-depressants are medications for a person’s mind, and therefore can alter who a person is. It seems absurd that we must we alter the individuality of individuals. Depression is supposedly a disorder in which a person is sad. Who on earth decided that a person is supposed to be happy all the time? In the novel, Brave New World, by Huxley, a drug called soma is used to satisfy, please, and gratify the population of the "World State." This drug allows for each and every human to be on the same emotional level. Soma blurs people’s sense of reality, causes happy hallucinations, and thus creates a stage of social stability. As Huxley stated through his characters' words, "And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears—that's what soma is." This novel presents its readers with a society that allows not even the slightest bit of individuality. Although Brave New World is only a story, it ties in closely with the issues in our lives today.

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