all sense of self, whether it's a digital or in real life identity, or a symbiosis of the two is built. we are products of the biases around us. ultimately, if we are not constantly retooling and reimagining ourselves, we are stagnant. sameness and the refusal to explore the unknown - or our barricade from it in the case of filter bubbles and imposed social isolation - is a recipe for collapsed cultural engagement. as restrictions for communication capacity, style, and ability increase, so too does the chaos surrounding the inability to navigate difference because the exposure disappears, and complacency and rhetorical laziness reign.