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This is a set of assumptions that make us perceive our world a certain way. Her key idea is that humans live in a psychological “reality bubble”. These two examples are mine, but they support the main concept in Ziya Tong’s book, “ The Reality Bubble”. Bullfighting may one day disappear through lack of interest. A few generations later bullfighting is a lot less popular, is banned in many countries and younger people in Spain don’t seem as keen to attend these events. The suffering of the bull and his grisly end was not an issue. This event was considered a cultural activity that required a great deal of skill from the bullfighters and their assistants. You know, that spectacle where people pay to watch a group of humans stab a bull with various steel instruments, tire him out, make him bleed and finally kill him with a sword.

As a young person your family may have taken you to a bullfight. Now imagine you lived in central or southern Spain at the same time. Of course, we now have people working in near-slavery conditions in sweatshops in some countries so that we can get cheap trinkets, but that is a discussion for another day on the evils of capitalism. A few generations later most people find this situation unacceptable and slavery is illegal (although racism still seems to be alive and well in many of the same areas). You knew no better and, unless you had lived abroad, you could not conceive of a society without slaves. You probably thought this situation was perfectly “normal”. You know, those people that your family “owned” and who worked for free, could be mistreated/killed on a whim, and who made your economy thrive and contributed to your family’s wealth. It would then have been highly likely that your family had slaves. And imagine you had been lucky enough to be born into a wealthy household. Imagine you were born in one of the southern American States on the Atlantic seaboard during the early years of the 19 th century.