Do you remember this popular colloquialism? He/she is living in their own little bubble. What does that mean? Well, if you're in your own little bubble, you're living in a fantasy, separated from the rest of the world by a thin layer of your own imagination. But, as I have stated and proved, our own imagination exists and it does not exist 'as our own'. What?
We live in agreement reality. So, our own imagination is essentially a collective... a social imagination; and, it is like others out there with which we agree and unlike others with which we disagree or have not ever agreed and will not ever encounter in order to agree.
Now, there is a new take on such a bubble... the knowledge bubble. Lately, its been used by academics at universities/think tanks run by elites to reject and or criticize and even bully other bubbles. Actually, its by their own authority and prestige that they discard other 'bubbles' of other kinds of information.
Thus, other bubbles are being canned/banned or shunned by those who claim to have the bubble; thereby, vehemently disagreeing that other bubbles, which are just as valid as theirs, were formed in the same way by the same principles in/of social imagination.
Based on my highly educated understanding and research of the social imagination, I think the old phrase 'living in their own bubble' has become the new catch phrase... 'knowledge bubble' as implying the same but with a new twist. So, all the elite bubbles or those high and mighty, who think their bubble doesn't stink, are really living in their own little bubble.
What does that really mean?
Well, as it was before so it is now... any bubble is information shared and agreed on (and agreed to disagree) in a place over time. And, thus, many are relative to the people and place whereat information is shared and agreed on; while at the same time many are objectively true... the sun is a star regardless of people and place.
I have written about this extensively and indirectly in my dissertation on the social imagination. In which I observed knowledge bubbles, data packets, the collective conscious and or cultures/ people living them, dreaming about them and changing or dissolving them if necessary... at work. I looked at how they were formed and shared and kept in place.
Recently, I see elites, academics and journalists poo poo certain bubbles as in pitting one against another if they see an advantage in doing so... that being to virtue signal or to ensure that their own dissertation, book and argument for their bubble remains on the table or in the breeze of current knowledge bubbles.
I paste here the very beginning of an article that attempts to look at knowledge bubbles with open eyes. I appreciate that so, let's read...
Does it matter if our acquisition of knowledge happens in “bubbles” where some information and voices are excluded? Discuss with reference to two areas of knowledge. A knowledge bubble involves a situation whereby individuals visualize all their knowledge inside a bubble and everything that they do not know is outside the bubble. Even though most individual think that they are benefiting from a knowledge bubble, they end up getting confused because as their bubble gets bigger, the interference between what they know and what they do not know gets bigger.
When an Individual’s knowledge consists one type of voice and one source of information whereby the test is excluded, they are not getting the full picture of the information. When one is expanding their knowledge on any subject, it is always advisable to reach out to many types of sources. There is no universal bubble that can include all the necessary information that an individual might be requiring to find answers for certain researches.
Different voices have different points of view hence individuals end up creating their own facts on the issues that occurred. When information or one group of voices are excluded, the learner ends up gaining biased information. Additionally, the learner gets different combination of biases because all the information that they receive from their bubbles come from the same source.
Therefore, it matters when information or voices are excluded when the acquisition of knowledge happens in bubbles because it prevents the learners from hearing both sides of the story and getting diverse information.
COMMENTARY: What can I say/add? I agree completely with this bird's eye view of man in his/her social imagination information 'bubble'. We are constantly in the mode of agreeing and or disagreeing with incoming information whether conscious of this or not... it happens; and, also among academics/experts.
Thereby, exclusion is an outcome or residue of staying in your own little bubble. But, this is true for all voices who have their knowledge bubbles. I certainly would not know what to do in situations outside of my scope of knowledge... even if its about something mundane or astronomical.
Sadly, many 'local/mundane/everyday common sense' voices are being excluded ... and we saw that during the cv one niner. Didn't we? We see this in all kinds of discussions and often the elite knowledge bubble holders call other bubbles conspiracies. Lest, their bubble blow off course or away or get destroyed.
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