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Originally Posted by Crawford
It's interesting that many people predicted a post-pandemic nightlife explosion, a la Jazz Age Berlin or something. It was supposed to be a new age of hedonism. What happened? I guess people had new routines during pandemic, and decided to keep to those routines post-pandemic?
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My guess is the changing youth culture? The latest social trends are started by young people; today's youth are too much into technology (smartphones, streaming, watching things online and on their damn phones) to the point that I feel it's making them homebodies and socially awkward. Anecdotal, but the 3 or 4 young people I work with at the office who were born in the 21st Century (!) totally have no personality; I'm often the one who says hello first when walking towards each other in the hallway; otherwise they'll just look away like I'm a crazy person to be ignored or something. Even my partner, who goes into the office once a week, says that the two youngest guys there (one is 30, the other 25), all they talk about is sports, and then when my partner asks what they did over the weekend, the typical answer is "Oh, just stayed home, watched (whatever) game or show..."
So dull!
I've seen online how people were equating the COVID pandemic to the 1918 Spanish flu, so somehow we were gonna have another "roaring 20s." Uh, no, the roaring 1920s were the result of the end of WWI, rapid changes in technology, and rapid changes in social mores.