I was watching This Is England from 2006, and it reminded me of the olden days of yore, in the fabled before-times, where people would just bunch up together every Friday in someone’s flat, get drunk, blast music, and talk without distractions.
I can barely remember it now.
Anyway, get off my synthetic lawn.
People do, but not as much as they did the decades before. That’s for sure. There’s a measurable decline of nightlife/clubs/bars/etc. almost everywhere. Phones are one reason, prices, corporatization and the vanishing of subcultures, outside in the real world, are others…