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I wish I had a photo to share, but there's a museum on Bere Island in southwestern Ireland about the island's people and history. It's a TINY island with a few

I wish I had a photo to share, but there's a museum on Bere Island in southwestern Ireland about the island's people and history. It's a TINY island with a few hundred people on it. One of the exhibits shows pictures of how people would gather at the one street corner (I mean, it was a dirt path, not a "street" as you imagine it) and dance and play music on Friday nights until late. And then how that died out after TV showed up.

toyg 3y ago
That's sad, but on the other hand - I bet nobody now has to deal with broken bottles, urine, and the other dreck that festive gatherings tend to produce. Modern society is definitely more deliberate in how people interact. You lose some poetic spontaneity but gain in peace and order, which make society scale up. I'm not saying it's all good but it's a trade-off.
- engineer_22 3y ago
  > You lose some poetic spontaneity but gain in peace and order, Heh, knock on wood. It's an election year.
- CalRobert 3y ago
  I think some people dancing on a street corner in the 40's and 50's is a far cry from the junk you see today. Given that this was before plastic was commonplace I doubt there was too much persistent litter, and if someone pees in a bush I don't really care.
  - toyg 3y ago
    > a far cry from the junk you see today. Maybe, but what I'm saying is that, if they were to do it today, as the parent comment wistfully longs for, that would be what the locals have to put up with.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  > but gain in peace and order It doesn't seem obvious to me that this is true. Is there data about this?