The Last Sapien | an american template

An American Template | Guess I am part of the game, I did develop the instant 'have a nice day' and the 'how are you's that are staying flat, keeping a genuine non intrusive pleasantries that are nice to have though totally circumventing our being. They do not even touch the air gap that fills the personal space between people. True we are at a situation that personal proximity is discouraged though the distant kindness was here before and here to stay like the coffee brew that sits at the kitchen all day - and now converted to capsules that taste like a coffee that was sitting at the kitchen the entire day, nevertheless instant meals that has zero to million ingredients to make an authentic flavor for a random chew.

There is a very thin layer of farm to table and freshly grounded, just brewed coffee- of providers, they are a few dots on the map covering the coasts and then near some hubs on the inland so it looks good on the outside with almost no change on the inside.

If you do not know how to get to center town you can never go wrong with setting your GPS to main street, you will get there. If there is no main street - there is probably a river or water street replacing it. You would see the same logos in most of the main streets, with some Mom and Pop shops that add the local flavor, before giving in to the big names that take over making it a single American Template.

There is so much convenience in a no surprise town, what ever its name is, faces change, the amount of garbage too, but the rest will be a complete resemblance.

In such a vast landscape when you can spend seven hours on a plane reaching from one side of the continent to the other, knowing what to expect on the other side is what makes you feel like home time and again wherever you land. The mass production of landscape makes it a one size fits all - easy to make and cost effective. What works once should just keep doing it going forward. So is technology - develop once use many. The innovation is almost left to the evil forces that try to break the chain, keeping the the guards always alert, more of like the smarter the mice - the better the cats tend to be. There is something numbing when you set your drive to convenience mode.

And then there is the human template - that is becoming even more acute these days. The highway signs around Boston encourage everyone to keep a 'social space' to avoid the spread of the outbreak. Very much the way of life in New England and much about the American template. Working intensively with so many people for a good amount of time, their interest in you comes to a complete halt the second you are out of the door. It is so precise that it can be the absolute definition of zero.

Yes, people have their own life to take care of, their worries did not change - but this is so 'unclanning' the people, where unclanning is part of the local culture. Be the individual you are and protect it even more these days, now it is a matter of life and death.

From my point of view the death is already here so put your mask on - it is the social death of an entire continent.

The only thing that can bring its life back is 'killing' the template - search for new boundaries, look for new people to hang out with and strive for the different.

The good friends I have are exactly that, which makes me feel thankful time and again when I run these thoughts through my mind. So unnecessary.