Scenes From Unprecedented Blackout In Spain: Street Dancing, Teenagers Having A Blast Without Their Phones, Men Directing Traffic, People Cutting Through A Fence To Bring Food To People On A Train...
Outdoor Cookouts, Women Being Carried Upstairs, And More
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Article from The International Reporter, here, with embedded clips, guaranteed to bring a tear to your eye.
Clip here.
In this piece, yesterday, I described how overjoyed I felt during the blackout. I now see that there is really something to this. Electricity separated us from our true selves and true senses.
a/c-current in home dwellings could all be making us base-crazy. (add-in wi-fi on top of that...)
a/c-current in the factory or office could be tolerable if one didn't have to also come home to it.
in hindsight, the mechanization of society and its attendant time-keeping (clocks) now seems more manageable to one's soul without being immersed in electricity on a 24/7 basis.
by 1920, with only 30% of all dwellings in American then electrified, the final ensuing marketing push was heavy-handed. The holdouts relented...
Yes - I saw it in Madrid too. And while most shops closed because they were not able to open electric tills and process cards, my local fruiteria dug out an old mechanical scale, took cash and chatted with customers.