People have always wondered about what problems we might have in the future where these futuristic worlds are usually represented through stories with authors criticizing the problems that society today is currently facing. In the science fiction short story “The Euphio Question”, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is criticizing how escapism is frequently used by everyone in today’s society to run away from any problems. The idea of escapism is condemned by Kurt Vonnegut by how once people get hooked onto something, anything bad they tried to get rid of eventually catches up to them, which ruins their lives. In particular, “Lew Harrison gave the euphio’s volume knob another twist...‘Aaaaaaaaaaah,’ said everybody...The wind outside was roaring and slashing
