Everyone likes news that makes you feel good. There's a market for fluff pieces about puppies becoming friends with tiger cubs However, the line between a feel good piece and an echo chamber is not always an easy one to spot. An echo chamber is a place, could be in real life or, more commonly now, on an app like Twitter or Facebook, where any idea you put out there, will be agreed with and subsequently spat back out to you, hence the freaky looking cartoon posted above. echo chambers can be enticing, a whole group of people who do nothing but agree and regurgitate each other's ideas. The issue, however, is that once you step out of your echo chamber, you have no idea what the world around you actually believes, you just know what your specially curated corner of the internet does. When you don't have to actually think deeply about what you say, you might be in an echo chamber, and if none of your beliefs have ever actually been challenged, you're definitely in one. In the interest of further proving my point about how important it is to step out of your own echo chamber and challenge your preconceived notions, I will quote someone with whom I have never once really agreed with, "To exist in an echo chamber and only talk to people with whom we agree is fruitless." - Tomi Lahren. Lahren is a right wing political pundit who I disagree with in almost every capacity, but she is absolutely right here. There's no point to conversation if it's all agreements and affirmations. There's no critical thinking and there's no growth. The deceiving thing is that it's not always easy to tell if you're in an echo chamber, but I believe it's always worth the time to try to break free of it and to actually experience the world around you, like Enrique Dans says with Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2021/02/04/why-we-should-take-the-time-to-question-whether-were-living-in-an-echochamber/?sh=190e70917012
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