Living In Our Bubbles

THIS IDEA OF "Living In A Bubble", so much in vogue these days, is both fascinating and very real. I know this becuase I sometimes find myself seeking the comfort of social and intelletcual "bubbles", which could perhpas also be termed "comfort zones". Alas, I am forever denied the secure comfort of my very own bubble. I am simply surounded, on a day to day basis, by too many Christian conservativves. Oh well, we must make do with what we have. Maybe its best that way. Maybe its for my own good. A bubble, if sufficiently expansive, can assume the form of a mass delusion, as in the case of Donald Trump's seventy five million member big election lie. Am I dreaming, or has Trump's election lie begun to slip and fade? those who embrace(d) it shall, at some point have to give up the ghost, and abandon their fantasy. why not now? Is it beginning to happen? Apparently, even the most conservative "Journalists" at FOX News, and the most ardent supporters of Trump, at least some of them, are beginning to claim that "I knew it was bullshit all along". Fast forward to the University of Alabama basketball team, the best bunch of roundballers the evenerable university, known for football, has ever had. The only teensy weensy little problem, as everyone by now knows, is that their best player, perhaps the best college player in the country in fact, seems to have been closely associated with a recent murder, as in supplying the murder weapon to the murderer. Another player was kicked off the team for simiar involvement, but hey, he wasn't the best player in America. He remains very much on teh team. Hundreds of athlets have been euspended from or released from their respective teams for far worse offenses and allegations. In college athletics, you are guilty until proven innocent. Meanwhile, the Crimson Tide fan base, "Alabama nation", is carrying on business as usual, not missing a beat, even treating the possible accessory to mureder like a hero, with their cheers. The serious moral implications of allowing him to remain on the team are of no concern to them. they, the alabama fan base, students, and administration, can smell their first trip to the Final Four ever, and a possible once in a lifetime national championship, and that will trump mere moral concerns, every time. Currently, if you are an Alabama Crimson Tide fan, chances are that you too, have cast your moral character to the wind, hopefully, temporarily. We needn't hold our collective breaths. As the Trump movement clearly demonstrates, large numbers of people can indeed remain in a state of suspended moral slumber for long periods of time.