[fargle]

well said.

now, the next step is - how do you identify whether you are in the real open world or just another, bigger, echo chamber with lots and lots of "like minded" folks who all think they are extremely open minded, to the point of congratulating themselves on it incessantly? (i can't think of any place like that...)

the answer is that if you are typing, it's almost always the later and if you are speaking to someone IRL it's the often the former.