So many people wear headphones and wireless headphones and earpieces. They've disappeared inside their bubble and only take the headphones out when they have to. And I am right there with them. I enjoy it inside my own bubble.
But I fear for the future of our society where the only interaction that we'll have is when we take our heads out of our bubble when someone is interfering with our bubble to yell at someone because they're in our way.
The American sentiment used to be don't tread on me. Now it seems to be don't get in my way.
We want to do what we want when we want to do it. More and more we don't own anything that we want the world available to us. We want to be able to speak into thin air and have food delivered to our door or have people rush in to set up furniture that we purchased online. And with internet control over our doors we want people showing up at our door and walking in unannounced to take our dogs out for walks because were busy enslaving ourselves to "the man". All along we filter out the junk we don't want to see or be part of and stick with what makes us happy in our dopamine-fueled bubble.
People in Ted talks have been sounding the warning about the filters that Internet companies are setting up for us. Marketers love what's happening because it's like fish in a barrel - they don't even need to shoot the fish in the barrel they just need to reach down and scooped them up because the fish are delivering everything to them.
We need to learn how to step out of our bubbles and live outside of our bubbles most of the time and only enjoy our bubbles as a luxury or as part of the smoothing the way to getting what we want. And we need to work on opening our bubbles to others so that we can better understand each other and improve our "culture" in the melting pot we call America.
