03-20-2022, 02:08 PM
(04-01-2020, 05:51 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: More social life at the local level... think of the old ice-cream social.
Lesser reliance on electronic entertainments and more upon the human touch.
After this horrible plague dies out, we are going to confront what is essential to happiness (meaning in life, or at least its quest) and what isn't. We may end up living at an economic level from the past because we do not know how to live in an age without scarcity.
P1: Agreed. Maybe a return to ballroom style dancing to offset the weather during the colder months.
P2: Agreed again. But we were already headed toward more inner driven entertainment long before, going back to the rock acts of the 2T and maybe the TV fetish of the last 1T. Whether either but especially the latter are dividers or unifiers is up for debate. The verdict is probably a little bit of both.
P3: Reminds me of a YouTube psychic I listened to just last night who predicted that once we reached the coming Thanksgiving there will be a less frenzied holiday season than which has been the norm since seemingly forever. There was the annual hustle and bustle when I was growing up but stores weren't open nearly the amount of hours in those times, and you had no Black Friday (the term originally applied to the day JFK was killed), 4AM feeding frenzy.