most live in-person sports and the Arts. Online performances have become the mainstay and alternative to complete obliteration in this Dark Age.
But don’t forget the myriad expressions of recordings on vinyl, on CDs, on DVDs, and the imaginative worlds of books and literature. It is still possible to feed and educate the imagination, but it requires personal resources and collections to facilitate ongoing cultural and civilized transmissions and periodic personal ‘top-ups’.
Exercise–the basis of sports–is still very much possible on a daily basis, but it requires movement away from screens, both indoors and out. One has to be responsible for one’s own personal health and movement. Recall that it is hard to hit a moving target, and the worst fate of humans today in a pandemic age is to be relatively still and motionless in a bed in a seniors care facility or hospital. Vigor and physical feats are always best appreciated, in any case, alongside one’s own physical health and strength, for which the individual is responsible. No one else.
And, as these two main areas ‘dry up’ publicly, the other significant connections remaining are via relationships and Nature, which must be continued or one’s world, indeed, shrinks more toward diminishment and nothingness.
Feeding oneself with exercise.
Feeding oneself with books and the Arts.
Feeding oneself with Nature.
Feeding oneself with and through relationships.
One more example of a cultural ‘top-up’–this one via great poetry and famous authors.
To say nothing of searching out and learning from the truly greats and famous people of history and civilization.