| richardhutnik said: The Internet, which is supposed to provide diversity, ends up more likely to create bubbles, and it isn't just the disagreeing, but also the dogmatic certainty in this that leads to arguing and not discussing. |
I guess that's one way of looking at it. But it's kind of like people complaining about biased cable news: it's annoying in its own way, sure, but it also beats the much-romanticized alternative of old Uncle Walter giving you one side of the story and then signing off with an authoritative, "And that's the way it is!" In that kind of an environment, everyone was just inhabiting the same big bubble, but in reality they were no less given to false ideas than are people today with their multitude of smaller bubbles. Worse, they didn't even know the bubble existed. At least today anyone with one iota of self-awareness has to concede the fact that there is actually no "reality-based community" and it's not only everyone who disagrees with you who is wearing blinkers; we all do it to varying degrees.
