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There is the Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. But that is a novel rather than a short story.

It does, however, have all the aspects you mention. From designer drugs, to an enthralled citizenry. It's a famous dystopia based on an ersatz drugged up happiness, whereas the other famous dystopia, was 1984, an indictment of a surveillance society that Orwell intended as a comment on the former Soviet Union, but can equally work as a warning to our own society, given how pervasive surveillance has become in our own society with the complicity of a few ...

Intoxication is the theme that connects the two. In the former, the very real intoxication based upon drugs; and in the other, an intoxication based upon the power that pervasive surveillance gives.

Both of them served as a mirror of the world that Orwell and Huxley saw unfolding in front of them. In a sense, they were the real news, as some say fiction can be. Because whilst news get stale as people's attention turn to something, a story that really gets to the real reality of things can last must longer than the mere happenstances of the time.

This is why people read, even now, *1984, Animal Farm and Brave New World, because they are revealing as well as great writing ... it's by these that we judge what great writing is.

Perhaps you are mis-remembering?

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@LethalCarrot: I've turned it into an answer. Happy now? It seems not, judging by your reaction ... some people are impossible to satisfy.

There is the Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. But that is a novel rather than a short story.

It does, however, have all the aspects you mention. From designer drugs, to an enthralled citizenry. It's a famous dystopia based on an ersatz drugged up happiness, whereas the other famous dystopia, was 1984, an indictment of a surveillance society that Orwell intended as a comment on the former Soviet Union, but can equally work as a warning to our own society, given how pervasive surveillance has become in our own society with the complicity of a few.

Intoxication is the theme that connects the two. In the former, the very real intoxication based upon drugs; and in the other, an intoxication based upon the power that pervasive surveillance gives.

Both of them served as a mirror of the world that Orwell and Huxley saw unfolding in front of them. In a sense, they were the real news, as some say fiction can be. Because whilst news gets stale as people's attention turn to something, a story that really gets to the real reality of things can last much longer than the mere happenstances of the time.

Perhaps you are mis-remembering?

There is the Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. But that is a novel rather than a short story.

It does, however, have all the aspects you mention. From designer drugs, to an enthralled citizenry. It's a famous dystopia based on an ersatz drugged up happiness, whereas the other famous dystopia, was 1984, an indictment of a surveillance society that Orwell intended as a comment on the former Soviet Union, but can equally work as a warning to our own society, given how pervasive surveillance has become in our own society with the complicity of a few ...

Intoxication is the theme that connects the two. In the former, a very real intoxications based upon drugs; and in the other, an intoxication based upon the power that pervasive surveillance gives.

Perhaps you are mis-remembering?

There is the Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. But that is a novel rather than a short story.

It does, however, have all the aspects you mention. From designer drugs, to an enthralled citizenry. It's a famous dystopia based on an ersatz drugged up happiness, whereas the other famous dystopia, was 1984, an indictment of a surveillance society that Orwell intended as a comment on the former Soviet Union, but can equally work as a warning to our own society, given how pervasive surveillance has become in our own society with the complicity of a few ...

Intoxication is the theme that connects the two. In the former, the very real intoxication based upon drugs; and in the other, an intoxication based upon the power that pervasive surveillance gives.

Both of them served as a mirror of the world that Orwell and Huxley saw unfolding in front of them. In a sense, they were the real news, as some say fiction can be. Because whilst news get stale as people's attention turn to something, a story that really gets to the real reality of things can last must longer than the mere happenstances of the time.

This is why people read, even now, *1984, Animal Farm and Brave New World, because they are revealing as well as great writing ... it's by these that we judge what great writing is.

Perhaps you are mis-remembering?

edit

@LethalCarrot: I've turned it into an answer. Happy now? It seems not, judging by your reaction ... some people are impossible to satisfy.

There is the Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. But that is a novel rather than a short story.

It does, however, have all the aspects you mention. From designer drugs, to an enthralled citizenry. It's a famous dystopia based on an ersatz drugged up happiness, whereas the other famous dystopia, was 1984, an indictment of a surveillance society that Orwell intended as a comment on the former Soviet Union, but can equally work as a warning to our own society, given how pervasive surveillance has become in our own society with the complicity of a few ...

Intoxication is the theme that connects the two. In the former, a very real intoxications based upon drugs; and in the other, an intoxication based upon the power that pervasive surveillance gives.

Perhaps you are mis-remembering?

edit

@LethalCarrot: I've turned it into an answer. Happy now? It seems not, judging by your reaction ... some people are impossible to satisfy.

There is the Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. But that is a novel rather than a short story.

It does, however, have all the aspects you mention. From designer drugs, to an enthralled citizenry. It's a famous dystopia based on an ersatz drugged up happiness, whereas the other famous dystopia, was 1984, an indictment of a surveillance society that Orwell intended as a comment on the former Soviet Union, but can equally work as a warning to our own society, given how pervasive surveillance has become in our own society with the complicity of a few ...

Intoxication is the theme that connects the two. In the former, a very real intoxications based upon drugs; and in the other, an intoxication based upon the power that pervasive surveillance gives.

Perhaps you are mis-remembering?