Open Access2021 Dreams of a Hospitable Society
Author(s) -
Paul Lynch
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
hospitality insights
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2537-9267
DOI - 10.24135/hi.v4i2.82
Subject(s) - front line , simple (philosophy) , covid-19 , front (military) , line (geometry) , sky , normality , advertising , psychology , sociology , business , political science , engineering , social psychology , epistemology , geography , law , philosophy , medicine , mathematics , mechanical engineering , geometry , disease , pathology , meteorology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
A benefit of the pandemic has been a pause in ‘normality’ allowing one to reflect: noticeable effects such as roads with near absence of cars, filled with pedestrians and cyclists who greet one another, a virtual absence of planes in the sky, a greater engagement of people with nature, with simple pleasures, a re-valuing of roles that have been deemed and rewarded commensurately as less valuable such as cleaners, refuse collectors, so called front line workers etc. A return to the idea that ‘we are all in it together’, the idea that a society might be said to exist once more.