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Everyone is bemoaning the shuttering of whole industries, but what we really need to be doing is envisioning a better world after/with COVID.
The entire global economy is changing in one year. Yes, we're all at home depressed, but nothing is going to be the same after this.
The entire global economy is changing in one year. Yes, we're all at home depressed, but nothing is going to be the same after this.
Instead of despair, what if we plan? What kind of world do we want to live in when the dust settles? Why should we go back to the status quo?
What can our downtown cores look like if not full of office buildings. What social spaces might we have in the absence of malls.
What can our downtown cores look like if not full of office buildings. What social spaces might we have in the absence of malls.
(especially on the prairies where mall culture is also about surviving long winters) If all our favourite restaurants close down, what could we be doing in their place?
If we don't think about all of this, what is going to come in and fill the spaces?
If we don't think about all of this, what is going to come in and fill the spaces?
Look at all these huge corporations, these big box stores, that came in and squeezed everything else out. Now they're going bankrupt and running away, cue the tumbleweeds.
Lets celebrate their absence and build community where we live. Nothing needs to be the same.
Lets celebrate their absence and build community where we live. Nothing needs to be the same.
I don't want things to "go back to normal."
"Normal" is rapacious, exponential "growth" aka destruction. It was never sustainable.
"Normal" is rapacious, exponential "growth" aka destruction. It was never sustainable.
Buying a bunch of shit to keep us entertained during lockdown isn't fixing us. It's not helping. So what can we do instead?
And I say this as someone who has been "nesting" as hard as anyone, trying to make this house bearable for the long winter ahead. I desperately want all this to end, but I don't believe it's going to "be the same." I worry it's going to be worse, if we don't shift it.
