If you think about it the bubbles are really a very superficial and dumb solution for a paranoid society. The bubbles are also a very selfish solution, emblematic of a society that only focuses on the individual; a society that doesn't focus on group or societal solutions.
You can see examples of this in the current state of the United States. Instead of focusing on designing livable safe spaces or banning unneeded oversized SUVs, you see person after person obsessed with car seats (which we will get to more of later in the book). There are constantly more and stricter laws regarding car seats, yet making spaces livable and safer is hardly even an afterthought. Even more importantly studies not done by those who make car seats have found that car seats don't actually increase safety, because they provide a security blanket which encourages drivers to drive more recklessly than they would if they weren't using a car seat.
The scary thing is those of us in the United States already live in a society where people make superficial and dumb decisions that don't make anyone any safer. A perfect example of this is all the idiots driving around in SUVs who don't even know their SUV's are built on cheap truck frames.
Even worse, superficial, dumb, and selfish solutions to fear and paranoia seem to be becoming more common, at least in many parts of the United States. What will happen when this generation raised with these three types of solutions takes things one step further?
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