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 Anti-social media and its tendrils as dystopia convergence: a combination of Huxley's "Brave New World" (1932), (with its "soma" and "nature-nausea reinforcement conditioning",) Orwell's "1984" (published 1949), (with its "Ministry of Truth," "doublespeak," and "Victory Gin") and Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron," (1961) (with its equalizing "<a href="https://www.litcharts.com/lit/harrison-bergeron/symbols/handicap-devices">handicapping devices</a>".) 
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 In the bleak worlds depicted by Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Kurt Vonnegut, the ruling powers employ various insidious methods of conditioning to pacify their citizens with enforced and coerced conformity. The authors issue a prophetic warning about the erosion of personal will and freedom, and the dehumanizing effects of enforced homogeneity. Their cautionary tales urge readers to resist the ever-exploited lure of complacency, and to vigilantly guard against the slow creep of groupthink that threatens to extinguish the vital sparks of individuality and independent thought.
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 Huxley opens Brave New World with the World State's motto: "COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY." Sound familiar to any recent campaigns? Soma is not just a drug or institutionalized method of control in the book, it's enculturated into the fabric of society, in things like soma-holiday. Best decribed by Huxley from the foreword: