Cevin Soling and the Manufactured Reality of Modern Life
Introduction: Living Inside a Carefully Constructed World Modern life feels natural, inevitable, and largely unquestioned. People wake up, work, consume information, and form opinions within systems that appear neutral and organic. Yet the work of Cevin Soling challenges this sense of normalcy. Through film, music, and satire, he exposes how much of what we accept as “reality” is manufactured—designed by institutions, reinforced by culture, and internalized through repetition. Rather than accusing society of overt deception, Cevin Soling focuses on something more unsettling: the idea that people willingly participate in illusions because those illusions provide comfort, structure, and a sense of belonging. How Reality Becomes a Narrative Instead of an Experience One of the central ideas in Soling’s work is that reality is increasingly mediated through narratives rather than direct experience. Media, education, and political discourse do not simply describe the world...