Maybe Bubbles aren’t so Bad

You’re certainly right that technology doesn’t replace communication. We have to face, and embrace differences, and I would suggest, find the value in the difference.

Maybe the problem is not the existence of bubbles or echo chambers. In the right context the shared commitment and perspective of that group can play a valuable role in a larger system of “bubbles.’

These bubbles are only a problem when we think everybody should have the same views, news, priorities, values, agreements, etc. Yet, this is truly how “organ-ization” works. I mean, we don’t say: “Why are those brain cells staying up their in their stupid grey matter bubble, when this body clearly just ingested some toxins and we need to be detoxing the blood ASAP!!”

Brain cells stay in the brain bubble, and liver cells stay in their liver bubble. The trick is figuring out what value that these bubbles have as organs in a larger framework of collective intelligence.

I don’t have all those answers, but I like practicing that inquiry. And I’m working on a bit in the next article in the series.