Hence and therefore in a political echo chamber, you hear the same arguments over and over again, ad infinitum.
Or ad nauseam because, as a matter of fact, echo-chamber arguments can become nauseating.
Anyways, you get the point.
To a lesser degree, by the way, our WeChat groups are our own echo chambers. We within our group all share the same interests and hobbies. Well, birds of a feather flock together, as they say. We share the same politics, too, more or less – anyone who says anything contrary to our beliefs will get lambasted without delay – and soon enough get thrown out.
If, that is, if they fail to black-list us first.
In this environment, public debates, on any subject, becomes difficult.
And that is not good, of course.
Safe to say, it’ll do all of us good to step out of our own echo chamber and mingle with outsiders and hear what they have to say.
They may have a point.
And that is the whole point – it is healthy for us as individuals to remain open minded.
Healthy, too, for society at large to be tolerant and inclusive.
Now, media examples of various echo chambers at work:
1. By rights, the internet should be doing more than anything else to open our eyes to new perspectives and experiences. We’re moving away from that: as the web becomes increasingly tailored to the individual, we're more likely than ever to be served personalised content that makes us happy and keeps us clicking. That happy content is seldom anything that challenges our viewpoint, and there’s a risk that this distorts our view of the wider world outside our browser.
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