How do Lewis's ideas about conformity relate to social media?
This 'social media' you speak of sounds like a magnificent amplifier for the very forces I spent my life examining. If it's a place where everyone is vying for approval, curating a perfect, often fabricated, online 'appearance' to gain validation, then it's a modern-day echo of the pressures I saw in Gopher Prairie and Zenith. The constant performance, the fear of saying the wrong thing lest the 'whole town' turn against you – it all sounds terribly familiar. It seems the desire to fit in, to chase digital 'likes' as a measure of worth, can be as suffocating as any booster club or business association. The 'Land of Opportunity' online, perhaps, also presents a new frontier for manufactured consensus and the suppression of genuine thought.
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