How do Benavente's ideas relate to social media today?
The curated presentations and carefully crafted personas we see on social media platforms today strike me as a digital extension of the very social theater I chronicled. The pursuit of admiration, the carefully managed image, the subtle jockeying for attention – these are all echoes of the vanity and self-interest I explored in the salons of my era. The 'intereses creados' may have shifted form, but the underlying human impulse to present an idealized version of oneself, often at odds with inner reality, remains remarkably constant. The constant performance, the pursuit of likes and validation, is simply a modern manifestation of the eternal human comedy.
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