The New American Lifestyle

     According to business newsletter editor John Maudlin:

The New American Homecoming.
It is underway now, and nothing is going to stop it.
A starting point, and something we can do right now, is supporting local businesses. This will help small, independent American companies bounce back from the devastation of forced closure.
Giving our dollars to essential mom-and-pop pharmacies and pizzerias… not just now, but long after things have returned to a new normal… is a great place to start. Really taking a look at where we want to invest our dollars as well as our time is our next logical step.
What’s happening now is a sudden and massive shift in awareness…

• We are working from home, and we like it.

• We are eating home-cooked meals, and we like it.

• We are finding new ways to entertain ourselves, and we like it.

• We are shedding excesses from our lives, and we like it.

• And we are discovering that yesterday’s status quo has left us anxious and angry, and we don’t like it.

     This new reality has a very localized appeal and feel to it. It's something that can be easily imagined by viewing 1950s style sitcoms and acknowledging that their message was one of close personal relationships with friends and neighbors being a good idea. Art imitates life and sometimes Artists are "unacknowledged legislators of the world."

("A Defence of Poetry" an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840.)