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Actually I think it's both.

cmaukonen — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:24:30 +0000

Actually I think it's both. It is easier to hide among those with whom we only wish to associate. But the world is more intrusive now as well. Where in we used to only get the news and information from three netorks for 20 min in the evening, it is now on our cell phone, emailed, and cable 24/7.

And there are now big screen tvs in a large number of eating and other establisments generally tuned to one news network or another.

The view from Europe is

expat — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:40:43 +0000

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The view from Europe is depressing. People here think Obama has passed real health care. We expats are trying to buy into German system where we can, but the holes are closing. Europeans still like Obama and will say "Yes we can" when his name comes up. But beyond the "small" world of America, out here in state-supported care, the view is try and stay away from one's own countryl

Now for a number of these

Michael Wolraich — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:19:24 +0000

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Now for a number of these people they can no-longer live entirely in their own little world. Their own bubble. The media and internet have make this more and more difficult.

Alas, I think it's the opposite. The proliferation of media sources enables people to get only the news that they want to hear--selective exposure that keeps them in their bubbles.

No disagreement on the main point, though. Great post.

Fear of the unknown. Fear of

Austin Train — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:32:00 +0000

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Fear of the unknown. Fear of the unfamiliar. It can make hermits of us all, or drive us to the cloister.

Hiding from what we don't know is something that is joined inseparably to speculating wildly about what lies beyond that wall. And at least Truman Burbank eventually collided with the cyclorama, though the Arri HMI fixture that fell from "the sky" earlier on was never fully explored - he was still buying into the facile explanations his cast-mates offered.

And it goes back a long, long way. Not only to nearby outsiders, it passes through geographic speculation and reaches all the way to false (yet no less intriguing) cosmologies.

Happily, that small percentage still exists that wonders, enough, about what's over the next hill, or across that water, to break the occasional bubble and enlarge the world just an incremental bit.

Surface tension ain't everything, after all.