Hey! Careful... I am on Soma and I am perfectually OrK!
***I have heard commercials off and on since this began. They all seem to be devoid of reality-and an attempt to paint an illusion***
IMO you have ID'd a major issue - fantasy. Modern media, modern thought is more and more fantasy. The world seems to be running from reality, truth. (I don't even run from Soma! :^D )
Soma is a drug that is handed out for free to all the citizens of the World State. In small doses, soma makes people feel good. In large doses, it creates pleasant hallucinations and a sense of timelessness. ... He says that taking soma makes the citizens of the World State “slaves.”
from BRAVE NEW WORLD
:>)