Living In A Bubble, Innit?

Just the other day, a column in a leading publication’s editorial mentioned about the Buddhist philosophy of four Noble Truths, and while leafing through, it came to the knowledge that perhaps Buddhism is the strictest and toughest of all religions. This has in fact been endorsed by some notable monks of Hinduism, where the emphasis was even given on the fact that the Buddhists place ‘suffering’ in the highest ordeal, and that everything else that exists is merely a bubble...

Now, how chaste is the statement, and what is the percentage of truth in it, that can perhaps be brought into fruition? It’s just out of practice that the word ‘Bubble’ associates itself with the Internet bubble, more colloquially called the ‘Dotcom bubble’. As known to one and all, this was a stock market bubble that was caused by excessive speculation in the companies that were related to companies that were Internet-related ones in the late 1990s. There was a massive crash where major online shopping companies and several others had failed and had to shut down. 

Talking about this analogy, rather this amalgamation, does this mean that all this while, the mortals chose to vehemently ignore all that was existing (suffering), perhaps overshadowing it, intensifying and garnishing it with ignorance? Ignorance of the ever-existing and ever unavoidable? 

How are these ever-existing and cascading bubbles any different then? Precisely the ones in which we reside?