The Coronavirus

[David Horn]

(02-16-2021, 06:23 AM)Einzige Wrote:

(02-15-2021, 11:05 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:

(02-15-2021, 03:49 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(02-15-2021, 02:16 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: I am wondering if any of you feel that once this pandemic is behind us, will there be a pent up demand for at least small to mid-size get-togethers, where you can let your hair down and have some fun. Have argued that nightlife was in short supply even before the pandemic hit. Where did all the fun loving, let your hair down, dance the night away single women go?  They were once in abundance. Any comfort for those like me who sorely miss the freer, more swinging times I came of age in?

Good questions.  It's not typical for a 4T to be wild and crazy, but it's not the uptight 1T that's just around the corner either.  2Ts and 3Ts are much more wide open, but crisis-stress leads to stress relief.  So maybe, yeah.

And yet I grew up in the 1T and to me it seemed less uptight than has the period from the late 1980s onward. In earlier times you could go shopping for groceries and have a friendly conversation with the checkout person about everything under the sun. No way have you been able to do that today. Over on the sister Facebook site I posted that there is now a much worse societal malaise than ever existed during the Jimmy Carter years, which was the beginning of the drift toward greater uptightness. Have you noticed that increasing uptightness has coincided with the advent of ever greater corporate concentration and power?.

The whole period from Nixon on has been increasingly awful.

We don't agree on much.  We agree on that! The political drift to the right has left most of us exposed to harm -- even those of us in relatively decent financial and social condition.  Improvement requires a spine injection, and that may be starting, albeit slowly.