"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution-then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."
-- Aldous Huxley

Uhhh... Immediate reaction: this is quite a self-contradictory, self-defeating, shortsighted, desperate, silly, fantastical statement. Secondary reaction: I feel a guilty "yeah, what if"... ??

NO, NO, NO.