sad people on similar worlds

Sometimes I wonder if democracy contains the seeds of its own destruction, in that its normal right of free opinion with the responsibility not to be merely offensive or destructive is subsumed by a self-taken right not to be insulted or offended, with those two verbs' own meanings converted from "gratuitously attacked" to "told a differing opinion".

"Bubbles", as you say; also the strange notion of "safe spaces", "trigger warnings" on set texts and bans on guest speakers, demanded by some students in some universities to protect their own possibly-bright but delicate minds from difficult topics, while denying the more robustly-brained the opportunity to make up their own minds.

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The "I'm always right so you are therefore wrong / stupid / evil even to hold differing views" attitude is nothing new to humanity, but the rise and power of "[anti?]social media" has made the rise of such repression and division so much easier and more prevalent. Perhaps socially more dangerous too, by being so insidious.

The big difference is that the binary-age repressors and divisors are not small numbers of national leaders, but large numbers of ordinary people leading ordinary lives; not strutting openly on stages and in governmental auditoria, but hiding behind bedroom curtains and nick-names.
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Perhaps the spirit and intention of George Orwell's "Newspeak" (in [i]1984[/i]) stalk us even now...