The Happy Breed
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"The Happy Breed" is a short story by John Sladek from Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions (1967). It details the Bald-Sopranoesque lifestyle of the five last humans in a world of "musselmen". "Musselman" does not refer to Islam itself, but rather to the idea of a mystic, out of touch with reality. They also call them zombies.
Musselman is a term used to describe people hooked into a "happiness grid". There are similarities between the dystopia described in this story and the world created in the film The Matrix, however the story predates the film by thirty-two years.
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