![]() ![]() The book “The Glass Bead Game” by Hermann Hesse warns academics about the dangers of “the bubble,” and provides a strategy for bursting it. ![]() Because of this and other recent events, we know that a custom environment can result in disaster. Bubbles prevent separated groups of society from communicating and empathizing with each other, a fact that Russia could have taken advantage of during the US elections to throw a wrench in the works of US politics. The term “bubble” describes the personalized environment in which an elite immerses herself thanks to Facebook and other social media, even members of the lower class can submerge themselves in a bubble, selecting who they interact with and what content they see. There is an anti-intellectual movement on the rise among less-educated people, and more and more academics distance themselves from the working class and surround themselves with people that think similarly to themselves. ![]() Today there exists a cultural separation between the working class and the elite and academic class. Review of the book The Glass Bead Game, by Hermann Hesse ![]()
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