I was recently reading an article lamenting the increasingly isolated modern lives we lead. The author told the story by illustrating the changing ways in which we have come to consume entertainment. For eons, people would go to a musical performance, an opera, or a play and watch live performers, all in a room together. Then, you had the act of going to a movie in a theater or to a drive-in, the eyes of a community focused on one enormous silver screen. With the advent and meteoric rise of television, it was the more intimate ritual of gathering around the boob-tube as a family to take in Dallas, M*A*S*H*, Seinfeld, or The Bachelor. Now, in 2020, each person sits in different rooms of their home, each with their own portable device streaming YouTube, Netflix, or Hulu. With every generation of technology, we have become more personalized, but also more isolated… less connected with the humans in our immediate proximity.
Tom Busler
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