As I was reading my second long read, "It's genuine, you know?" why the online influencer industry is going authentic" it mentions how social media is filled with posts that aren't authentic. It lead to me making a connection with the soma in Brave New World , and how the soma helped them escape reality.
For us our soma would be our social network sites, where we are able to see the lives of many people and are able to compare it with ours. We often compare and contrast ourselves with other famous people because of the way we look. A very common example would be our bodies, we see all these famous women with the "ideal" body and then compare ourselves to them. Many of them were capable of getting their perfect image because of surgeries, or also their pictures could have been edited, which is not genuine.
Then the soma in Brave New World helps then not see the truth and live in a fantasy where no one ever ages. When Lenina encountered an old person she found him disgusting, but little did she know that's what it is like to live. Eventually we all get old. The soma made them live without being authentic, it made them live in a world that everything remained the same and change wasn't an option.
- Mayra Guerrero
By reading this it does remind me of another long read which says if technology already dominating the human mind. As pictures or videos of a another humans life which then we compare ourselves to. Is technology already dominating us by questioning our life’s to one another. Yes I agree that our soma is social networks, but slowly it’s beating many minds.
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