There are two forces that seemingly drive our mundane lives. First, there is the impact of "distorted reality" on our minds. This enables us to think different, be different, and promote difference. The idea of "distorted reality" cracks the mirror image of you and this fractured image of you makes you see new opportunities for you and your life. Second, there is the impact of "confirmation bias" on your view of the world. This enables us to belong to a group, a community, an ideology, or a theology. Nature makes it an imperative that we belong to something bigger than ourselves.
But when contemporary technologies [Internet, computer, iPhone, etc] make it easy to fuse our take on "distorted reality" with "confirmation bias" the inevitable result is we enter a social bubble. And so one of the key challenges we face in the C21st is to understand which social bubble we have chosen to inhabit and why we made that choice.
The social bubble we tend to choose:
- promotes a narrative with a "distorted reality" which supports our 'confirmation bias"
- comes loaded with strong "social ties" based on ideology, theology, or general beliefs
- pits "us" against "them" in what seems to be sort of noble battle
- brings "meaning" to our life within a world of constant "sameness"
Richard
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