The Old Normal And The New

[poliphilo]

 Most weeks we get a food delivery from one of the big supermarkets. This week Ailz went with Waitrose- which is a novelty- and for the first time since Covid we had a delivery man who didn't just hand over at the doorstep but carried his boxes through to the kitchen. I told him how impressed I was and he seemed surprised- as though he'd never known any different.

I thought, "Finally things have returned to normal" but, of course they haven't. Since Covid the world has changed- but this was an odd little flash of how things used to be.

Talking about how the world has changed- but in a different register- I notice that journalists are using the term "Civil War" to describe what is going on in L.A.- where anti-ICE activists are now facing off against the Marines.....

Comments

[wantedonvoyage]

I feel like that's where we're headed. We haven't had government troops told to turn on American citizens since the 1960s.

When we came over in 2008, I found out a week before our trip that I'd been made rendundant and thus was in a bit of a financial panic (which ended up being for nought). Just to add to it, the pound was very strong against the dollar just then so everything was a king's ransom. We ate a lot of ready-made Waitrose sandwiches!

[poliphilo]

But back in the 60s it was the National Guard that was turned out (wasn't it?) whereas Trump is sending in the Marines!

Waitrose has a name for being the rich man's supermarket- and their produce therefore of the highest quality. Whether this is really the case I don't know....

[paserbyp]

Civil War in US is a big dream of China and Russia!