Return from the Bubble
Thoughts from Nick Carraway
We all know about the bubble and have heard much about the bubble, but it is quite different when you live in it even for a few days. We survived the trip to the inlaws, but I’m a whole lot wiser in the meantime.
We requested no Fox and they obliged. Still, we were inundated with Investigative Discovery, MeTV, and Turner Classic Movies. The combination of that and being trapped indoors was quite overwhelming.
You simultaneously see the world as people thought it was while seeing the current one as a kind of cross between The Walking Dead and The Purge.
The takeaway is usually the same. I’m not so much left in wonder at that world but in wondering what world we’ve created for ourselves. Those of us of a certain age recall having three main channels. We shared a common world.
So, even when we remove the news and commentary we still have separate worlds made up of our individual entertainment choices. That’s the world we’ve created. I only notice it when it’s not my own. It makes you wonder what we are doing to ourselves.”