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That's an interesting take - although there was literally a global pandemic just a few years ago. Granted, the nature of surviving that pandemic involved reinf
by low_earth_orbit 3mo ago
That's an interesting take - although there was literally a global pandemic just a few years ago.
Granted, the nature of surviving that pandemic involved reinforcing several isolating habits on a societal scale.
I'm curious as to what situations would actually result in more fabric produced on a large scale.
- PeterHolzwarth 3mo agoOh, the pandemic - that's a great counterpoint you bring up. And I like the distinction you make that the collective experience was quite strange: collective in the aggregate, but profoundly isolating in (individual) practice. I wonder if the deeply isolated experience of covid actually feeds into and supports the original premise, in its own inverse way.
- low_earth_orbit 3mo agoI feel like there is a certain friction to altering behaviors on a large scale which the pandemic was obviously a significant force for. I'd be super interested to see some good roadmaps to restore the social fabric that @barry-cotter is chatting about. There was a neat blog post I read from here a while ago about this couple that began fostering community by introducing a consistent low-friction activity in their neighborhood (in this case morning coffee outside). It was a wholesome read: https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/stoop-coffee-how-a-simple-idea-transformed https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/stoop-coffee-how-a-simpl....