But while Zoom calls may seem convenient , they come at a cost: isolation. The bubble of power seals off bad news, inconvenient details, hostile opinions, and messy realities, leaving you free to inhale the rarefied air of pure abstraction. Like the cave dwellers of Plato’s parable, the powerful watch shadows of outside reality flickering on their walls, grateful to be so comfortably protected from the reality themselves. The rough gives way to the smooth in a frictionless ascent.
And it can also blind one to the details that one would prefer not to see.
From the book, Willful Blindness by Margaret Heffernan