Comment by alexashka

Thinly veiled 'I despise stupid people', this one.

They'd be boozing (more than they already are) if there wasn't such variety of cheap and available entertainment, the author doesn't seem to realize?

It's not what stupid people do in their free time - it's what capable and smart people value and pursue that makes all the difference.

Nietzsche laid this out quite beautifully in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Huxley and Orwell are kindergarten philosophy by comparison.