We live in echo chambers

I'm so right. All the time, I'm always right.

When I log onto Facebook I see it. Everyone is posting about politics, and every post berates the bad guys and glorifies us. My party. Everyone is saying the same thing: that I'm right. Those guys are bad, but we're good. "What's wrong with the world," I'll say before logging off.

Sometimes I enter into a business meeting with an agenda. Not the kind that helps to run an efficient meeting, but the kind where I intend to convince my teammates to do what I want. In these cases, I don't bother listening, because I already know the answer coming in. And I make sure to ask the head of R&D his opinion, because I know he understands. If someone disagrees it's because they're wrong, so I just need to explain myself better. Eventually we go the right way. Or sometimes we don't, but everyone makes mistakes.

In traffic, I've been told I'm the worst, but secretly I don't believe it because I drive well. Some people, on the other hand, they zoom past you, then swerve into the front of the line of cars in which you're waiting. That's the worst. Immediately I get hot with fury, because I have somewhere to be. The selfish jerk.

I'm right at every level of my life, and every area of my life is all about me.

This morning I was late to a meeting so I had to cut into a line of traffic. Luckily there was a space between the cars so the guy behind me couldn't have been too put out. It was unfortunate, but necessary. I waved at him..

I settled into the front of the line, and for just a moment, it seemed like something might change.

But then I quick pulled up my phone and checked Facebook, and the world looked Right again.