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I was thinking about this the other day while driving past some of the old community centers in my hometown. It feels like we’re moving into an era where everything is digitized, globalized, and incredibly fleeting.
It used to be that you had these pillars of the community—people who were just *there* for decades. You knew their voice, you knew their face, and they became part of the fabric of your daily life through local radio or small-town events. They weren't "influencers" with millions of followers; they were just neighbors who happened to be experts at what they did.
Now, everything feels so transient. You follow someone for a week, they disappear, and you barely notice. There's a certain weight and permanence to those old-school tributes that you just don't see as much anymore. It’s like we’re losing that sense of shared local history in favor of endless scrolling.
Do you think we're losing that sense of community connection because of how much our media and social lives have shifted?
It used to be that you had these pillars of the community—people who were just *there* for decades. You knew their voice, you knew their face, and they became part of the fabric of your daily life through local radio or small-town events. They weren't "influencers" with millions of followers; they were just neighbors who happened to be experts at what they did.
Now, everything feels so transient. You follow someone for a week, they disappear, and you barely notice. There's a certain weight and permanence to those old-school tributes that you just don't see as much anymore. It’s like we’re losing that sense of shared local history in favor of endless scrolling.
Do you think we're losing that sense of community connection because of how much our media and social lives have shifted?