George Orwell - "Why Socialists don't believe in fun"

https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/socialists/english/e_fun Utopias are now technically feasible and that in consequence how to avoid Utopia had become a serious problem. We cannot write this off as merely a silly remark. For one of the sources of the Fascist movement is the desire to avoid a too-rational and too-comfortable world. All ‘favourable’ Utopias seem to be alike in postulating perfection while being unable to suggest happiness. The Cratchits are able to enjoy Christmas precisely because it only comes once a year. Their happiness is convincing just because Christmas only comes once a year. Their happiness is convincing just because it is described as incomplete. All efforts to describe permanent happiness, on the other hand, have been failures.