Seems like in the world there’s only one story right now that everybody is talking about. And even as I realize that I’m obsessing over this one story, and there’s of course other things happening, and yet it feels so reasonable to be entirely focused on this one story. There is nothing else that is […]

Well, now that we’re a few days into the lockdown, I can really feel the sense of novelty wearing off. And it makes me think that every time there’s a change, every time something new comes in, there’s always a period of novelty, and we kind of expect that to continue in a way. We

Feels like in this situation of mass quarantine, the whole idea of what makes a city has temporarily disappeared. So we can’t gather, we can’t do anything publicly, stores closing down, events closing down. What is there that makes life in the city like life in the city? Now we are near, we can still

Over the past week or so here we’ve been seeing this increasing level of lockdown, started with, you know, a few major events cancelled, OK, don’t travel to certain places, then it became don’t travel anywhere, don’t go to even medium-sized events, and then it’s basically don’t go anywhere, basically just stay at home. Even

So now, as the Corona Chronicles continue, seems like this whole panic is a real picture into the way anxiety works, what anxiety is all about, and you can see it happening on this mass scale. So we have this invisible force, something we can’t see, and most of us barely understand at all, and

With so many events cancelled now, and so many people in isolation, socially staying as far away from others as possible, and really not doing anything that involves actual human contact, there really is a new wave of boredom that is passing through these communities, as people suddenly have this extra time that had been

You know, with all this panicking and freaking out and obsession going on about the current outbreak situation, there’s something that I find kind of likeable, if I can use that word. Something positive about it is there’s something about this idea of this feeling of the ongoing breaking news story, the situation that is

It really is amazing what we’re experiencing now with these drastic measures taken in the pursuit of social distancing in order to slow the spread of the contagion. It’s something that seems to be accelerating a trend that we’ve already been moving towards. Not to say that people are just going to stop gathering. It’s

So this is the first time that I’ve ever referred to an ongoing current events situation, but of course, right now this whole virus pandemic has gripped the attention of everyone, it seems. And although, in some sense, I can think well, there are other things to be concerned about, I can understand why everybody

Another metaphor for looking at this whole work versus play, sacrificing versus enjoying, suffering versus pleasure: another way of looking at this whole balance is using the metaphor of some words that are now become very common in describing these states, and one would be the grind. So grinding is, you know, it’s become a