https://pixels.com/featured/under-the-sea-in-a-gray-submarine-with-sock-monkey-irene-irene.html

Interesting find. It made me think of us being the experiment and “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.” Researching on Wikipedia, it was ironic that it depicts [them] in the bubble, not us.

> Days after Bill Clinton was inaugurated as U.S. President, William Safire reported on the phrase "in the bubble" as used in reference to living in the White House.[4] Safire traced that usage in U.S. presidential politics to a passage in the 1990 political memoir What I Saw at the Revolution by Peggy Noonan, where she used it to characterize Ronald Reagan's "wistfulness about connection"; Richard Ben Cramer used the phrase two years later in What It Takes: The Way to the White House with reference to George H. W. Bush and how he had been "cosseted and cocooned in comfort by 400 people devoted to his security" and "never s[aw] one person who was not a friend or someone whose sole purpose it was to serve or protect him."[4] Noonan's use was a reference to The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.[4]

I don’t know what to think of this! I’m so confused 🫣🙃

I am too!