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You can't burst the bubble I realize the change that has occurred in my own life.. that applies to almost everyone else.. Until six years ago, I didn't live in a bubble. This, for me is not about politics but it applies.. What does living in a bubble do? Well first it attacks reasoning that include diverse opinions, it forces the mind inside oneself, and it searches out it's commonality with others. It's individual tribalism, that the commonality is not what's inside the bubble but the bubble itself. We know it's real..In a society that has forced it upon us....where once we had to deal with and live amongst diverse opinions and people we no longer have to. We get to choose to not learn about those things and to live in our own bubble There is so much evidence of this created by technology, economy and work places, friends and family, and politics The differences are exaggerated. without the forced evidence in dealing with diversity to understand it. You don't need to go out of your way to see someone to find out what he, she or it means.. just push a button on a computer. let your own mind figure it out Poor people don't know rich people and rich people no longer know the middle class. People of one religion don't know people of other religions. Citizen no longer know immigrants.. Men don't know women, and women don't know men. The young do not know the old nor the old know the young. only what they get from pushing a button. The bubble was created when once we were forced to determine the truth by interacting and understand with one another, now it's but a choice. The choice is the bubble. |
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Well what does this mean.... as we try to understand each other? The mind was never meant to be self-indulgent. It's need input over creativity. It need input to be creative. The lack of input and the mind running wild in the bubble leads to all sorts of unreasonableness Victimhood, hate, conspiracies, negativity, excuses, accusations, amorality, and a misrepresentation of truth and integrity. Maybe some of you see this as a political factor of Trumpism.. but it doesn't stop there.. it holds the same for liberals.. The irony of bubbles is they create more bubbles. There is no way out of it.....Humanity may never catch up to the societal changes that forces us to deal with us not as a country, a State, a family or a friend..We build the world , in our own mind, We see the flaw's in it that are personal to us that make us a victim of it, we look to changes those things to make our world more perfect.. but we always forget to deal with one's own imperfection that makes our mind's world imperfect. Each of us as an individual should understand we are here and that alone makes us special.. but once being here doesn't make you special.
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There was a time when people you had little concern for or immediately took a dislike, you still came in contact with..You were given the chance to change your mind.. You found out in certain circumstance how enemies can become friends. Or discovered more about why your first impression was right Today you can unfriend them, ban them, take them off your contact lists, call the spam, and try to get your "real" friends to agree with you, but you never have to interact with them. Never having to find out what's real about them...and your "real friends" , well...that's jsut in your fricken mind also.
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Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal and Marie Antoinette's head tell me that bubbles aren't a new phenomenon.......
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American slavery, Eastern caste systems.......and historic racism didn't need modern technology for it's bubbles either....Humans have always had social stratifications......which always had rules of non-fraternization.....Bubbles.......bubbles.....bubbles....
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Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal and Marie Antoinette's head tell me that bubbles aren't a new phenomenon.......
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Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal and Marie Antoinette's head tell me that bubbles aren't a new phenomenon....... It's a common experience for almost all senior. It what made me realize it. The idea that what you know, and what you think is a choice that has always been challenge in our daily lives. it usually stops when you become a "senior?" But it never a society mandate for one not to expose themselves to the unknown. But our society has now not challenged it at any age. Our society has perceived the challenge as too hard for most people. The idea of doing things with people you don't know, or going some place you don't know, or having to do anything you don't want to do. You now get to sit at home and figure it all out before you do it. There are so many fewer surprises, there so much less risk taking. Failure is always a "bad" thing. Making up your mind ahead of time, Not trying has become succeeding without the possibility of failure Yet those are the challenges that keep you OUT of the bubble. Those are the challenge that opens one's mind
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Not the common kind of Civil War.. WE are in the uncommon civil war right now.. It doesn't have to change, it just has to continue.. There will never be a winner...because winning is not what this Civil War is about.. this Civil War is about NOT LOSING
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10/31/2022 6:25 pm |
Jiminy You have lost me on this one. I do not get the bubble thing.
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