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How does technology effect Happiness?

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Ernest Hemingway, a famed American Novelist, once said "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know" (Hemingway).

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Both worlds use materialistic things to create happiness in their individuals.

The characters in Bradbury’s and Huxley’s societies share a materialistic world view believing that their happiness can be achieved through short term physical reactions with different technological forces; however, Price-Mitchell suggests that people use technology to further bolster their happiness, not necessarily that they are reliant on it solely for contentment.

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Humans can't experience real emotions due to their heavy reliance on short term happiness through technology.

Because the people in both novels are so heavily reliant on technology for happiness, they entirely miss the chance to experience real world emotions or remotely feel anything abnormal at all, which is something Price-Mitchell disagrees with in her article as she claims people may even feel emotion more vividly as they are exposed to many more sources of influence, rather than having their emotions inhibited.

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The twenty first century has show me that technology can be used to reinforce people's entire emotions and happiness.

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"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."

"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." (Huxley)

People in the World State never feel a plethora of emotions that most common people in our world experience everyday. This is exemplified by the lust John has for wanting to experience pain, greed, and ultimately unhappiness.

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Lenina felt herself entitled, after this day of queerness and horror, to a complete and absolute holiday. As soon as they got back to the rest-house, she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity. It would be eighteen hours at the least before she was in time again. (Huxley)

Lenina, as the definition of a normal person in the World State, feels that is is perfectly normal for someone to take away their emotions through technology on a daily basis. Even if it is the slightest incongruity, they instantly fall back on soma, feelies, or some other form of physically appealing tech.

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There are many examples of this in the novels Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and in the article “Inside the Digital Lives of Teens” by Marilyn Price-Mitchell.

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Bradbury's and Huxley's novels from the twentieth century express that technology creates fake happiness in individuals , through the anesthetization of their emotions. Marilyn Price-Mitchell disagrees that humans can co-exist with technology and even have improved levels of al around emotions,  and I concur with Price- Mitchell from my experience in the twenty-first century.

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Technology influences many people to get superficial happiness through the short term satisfaction of its usage, but also inhibits the feeling of any other emotion in the process. This inability reinforces the idea that technology degrades true happiness.

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If we do not have the self control to limit ourselves from technology, then we will become what technology wants us to be.

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In the twentieth century, science fictions writers Huxley and Bradbury ultimately feared that advanced technology would create a world of materialistic, short term happiness, they suggest that humans are robbed of the opportunity to experience true happiness and other real emotions. However, in her article, Price-Mitchel argues that technology allows us to be even closer together as we can talk from across the world and still have equally good conversations in person, and and I agree with Price-Mitchell based on my own experience with technology in the twenty-first century.

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"It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think."
"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is
hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."' pg. 25

Montag is talking about how everyone in their society just drones along and does as they're told. No one experiences and heart felt instinctual feeling or anything personal at all, only relying on their government to tell them what to do.

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"And in her ears the little Seashells, the
thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music... Every night the waves
came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her,
wide-eyed, toward morning. There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea." pg. 10

Mildred has to use technology to almost "cleanse" her mind every single night as if she would die tomorrow if she did not. Almost everyone in their society relies on this tech to get them through life, almost like soma, it washes their appalling emotions away.

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When asked how social media affected their emotional well-being, teens overwhelmingly reported positive outcomes. They were far more likely to say they felt more confident, less depressed, more outgoing, more popular, less shy, and more sympathetic to others because of their online interactions Price-Mitchell).

Mitchell says that people who are still heavily reliant on tech in the twenty first century still have extremely vivid emotional interactions and responses. If anything social media exposes them to more rage inducing things than what we would have without.

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For young people who do report a change in psychological health, only a small percentage reported a negative change. In fact, emotional well-being was not discernibly different if a teen was a heavy or light social networker (Price-Mitchell).

Many people keep the same emotions and emotional health that people without tech still have. This displays how emotions are not indeed taken away when technology is introduced, and if anything amplified to a certain degree.

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We use technology, especially in our newly faced times, most literally every single day at least once. Whether it is a microwave to social media, we heavily rely on it all throughout our lives. It influences us in a myriad of ways and in many cases can cause intense emotions to arise, especially in our ever-changing political climate. No one can deny they have not got swept off their feet before because of social media or technology, whether it was a racially toned comment or a vide of Weiner dogs running around in a circle. Despite enveloping many peoples lives even sometimes as an entire job, me and my close friends are still who we were 3 years ago. Sure we may have changed from life, but that is life not technology. If anything technology brings us closer and is a factor that contributes to our happiness because it is the whole reason we can make plans to hang out in literally five minutes. It allows us to create memories we will remember till the day we die and further our bonds with friends who will be with ups to the end. Also, it