I enjoyed your post and, not wanting to make assumptions about you and yours, I think your post rings true for the "Middle Class / Middle Age" segment of the population. My experience - with the exception of the 'Hygienic Protective' aspect - is almost identical to what you wrote.
Personally I am still trying to determine what the COVID-19 experience both reflects and what it has set in motion.
I think personal agency (the lack or exercise of) is one big trend at the moment. From those people who have discovered personal agency in baking sourdoughs and cherishing the quarantine quiet to those who are protesting the perceived wrongness of governmental lock-downs, everyone seems to be rediscovering their need to own themselves and their fate. What this means in the long term, I don't know, but I believe your "megatrends" are interlinked by personal agency.
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I enjoyed your post and, not wanting to make assumptions about you and yours, I think your post rings true for the "Middle Class / Middle Age" segment of the population. My experience - with the exception of the 'Hygienic Protective' aspect - is almost identical to what you wrote.
Personally I am still trying to determine what the COVID-19 experience both reflects and what it has set in motion.
I think personal agency (the lack or exercise of) is one big trend at the moment. From those people who have discovered personal agency in baking sourdoughs and cherishing the quarantine quiet to those who are protesting the perceived wrongness of governmental lock-downs, everyone seems to be rediscovering their need to own themselves and their fate. What this means in the long term, I don't know, but I believe your "megatrends" are interlinked by personal agency.
Thanks!
And yes, personal agency - I hadn't thought about it this way, but that's very apt.