Back In The Day

We won’t all be watching The Morecambe And Wise Christmas Special this Christmas.

Sorry if that means nothing to you, but….Back In The Day…that kind of thing actually happened here in the UK. Pretty much a whole nation (maybe 20 million of us anyway) would sit in front of a TV and watch exactly the same thing as each other.

And back in the day there were many other ways in which there was a sense of a shared culture.

Move forward 40 years (bloody hell!!!!!) and do we still have something in common to talk about the next day… a shared experience…that glues it all together.

To be honest, no. Not in the same way. And Covid and its aftermath seems to have eaten into that even more. Despite the fact that we are, in principle, Connected to the whole damn World via the World Wide Web. Society, for the time being at least, seems to many of us to be a more disparate, and possibly even a lonelier place.

But that doesn’t mean things can’t get better. We are more than capable of finding new forms of being together, and making society a positive and more coherent thing again.

And, as good as they were, I’m sure we can do better than The Beeb, The Two Ronnies, Top Of The Pops, Sunday with The Vicar Of Dibley, or whatever it might have been that helped you to feel part of something bigger.

So keep on dreaming, and doing your bit. Coz it's Peeps like us who change things or support the folk who are trying to.