You live inside a bubble that is either created for you or one that you create [see photo]. Therefore your primary task, throughout your life, is to manage your bubble to the best of your ability. Of course, as an adult, you will discover that as goes your bubble so goes your life. Sometimes you can expand your bubble and at other times you must contract it. If you created your life bubble then, in essence, you can manage it on your own. If you live inside a bubble created by others then you must always collaborate with your cohorts in ways that affirm the preconditions for a shared life bubble.
Not too surprisingly, perhaps, these individual and collective bubbles are not equal in status in a "one-think" world. At the individual level the bubble you sustain must cooperate with those around you. The highest level of cooperation needed comes when dealing with your local community because this is where you live. Alternatively the collective bubble is maintained and sustained by the collaborative will of all participants. The highest level of collaboration will come at the meta-level of the community in which you survive and thrive.
The bubbles you inhabit have built-in time frames. For instance the collective bubble has a longer time frame than that of the individual. This is important to acknowledge because each bubble is supported by pertinent data hubs and the construction of such entities is time sensitive. If you are living inside an individual bubble the data hubs you need are not that common. Indeed the data set you need can be very difficult to track down. Thus you tend to live alongside an array of data hubs, in the short-term, that make no real sense to you. These data sets are a challenge for you because they relate to a time frame that is not the one you tend to use or favour. Adding to this time frame distortion is the lack of empathy you feel for these data. Indeed when you try to make sense of the insights that these data sets offer you - say on the daily news - you often feel perplexed. You find these data sets to be ambiguous, confusing, and even frustrating.
In this emerging "one-think" society the life bubble that supports you comes with a data hub that is very important to your entire life. For instance, if the data hub that supports you is not seamlessly aligned to the way you seek to live your life then you have an important decision to make. Either you must adjust what it is that expect from your life or you must gradually remove yourself from the life bubble that these data support. Both those life adjustments will be fraught with danger because who you are in this "one-think" world is constantly being redefined by the data hubs that you access and rely upon to survive and thrive.
Richard.
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