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human
CMV: I'd rather be controlled and happy than free and miserable.

In Aldous Huxleys "Brave New World" people are divided in different predetermined classes: Alpha, Beta,....., Epsilon. Alphas are handsome and smart and then it goes gradually down to Epsilon which are dumb and controlled by the higher classes. The important thing is that people of lower classes are made dumb and controllable before they are born. So they are happy because they are too dumb to understand that they are controlled and essentially have no free will. And since they are born like this, Epsilons will never know what privileges they don't have and accept their lives.

The only people who have problems in dystopic worlds like "The Matrix" or "1984" are the ones who know the truth. The ones who are being controllled are happy.
gpt
Are they really 'happy', though, in the sense that you are thinking with your free and able mind? By inducing a certain emotive state or clipping their proverbial wings before they're able to realize anything, I'd argue that it's something you wouldn't want to be. In the most basic of terms, it seems fine; working and toiling all day and not knowing any better.

But you'll never be able to really experience art, enjoy intellectual endeavors, form healthy bonds, or have any semblance of a decent life. You won't have leisure or taste, and everything that makes you is moot. And while you stated:

> And since they are born like this, Epsilons will never know what privileges they don't have and accept their lives.

I'd say that isn't 'happy'. At the very least it's an ignorant contentedness. You don't really know what happy is when it's ripped out of you or induced.