Clarissa's Blog

I keep hearing that everybody lives in their own ideological bubble. This opinion is advanced by liberal people. They truly do live in an information bubble and think everybody else has a similar experience.

A conservative ideological bubble, however, is utterly impossible. If you have gone to school in the past 50 years, if you have turned on cable TV, streamed a Netflix show, watched a sitcom, used Duolingo, done a Google search, been to the movies, walked into a chain bookstore, visited Amazon’s landing page, patronized a public library—in short, if you live in society and not an Amish village—you receive a constant stream of liberal ideology daily.

You can find conservative ideology if you look for it. You’ll have to put in time and effort. Search through Substack posts and X feeds to find mentions of tiny publishing houses that print conservative thinkers. Liberal ideology doesn’t have to be searched for. It’s always there. It’s the air we breathe.

As of now, the count of far-FAR-left books that I was forced to read against my will at work stands at five. We are a state university. How would I be able to avoid being forced to read this material? How could I manage to inhabit a right-wing bubble? How can anybody avoid knowing every permutation of left-wing dogma?