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At the block party last night (I brought, shockingly, beans) we had much discussion of my proposal to stage an 18th Century Weekend. I've discussed it here before: Participants would agree to eschew, and also shun and abhor and possibly deride, the technological short-cuts and "conveniences" that have shredded the timeless social fabric of the village. You want to tend your backyard garden, but you wind up lost in Northern Virginia trying to find the birthday party in some godforsaken place called Bailey's Crossroads.
At bare minimum I think the weekend would bar the use of email, TV, phone, cellphone and automobile. Those are the key technologies that disrupt village life. Also any isolating technologies such as ipods with earphones. The question, as always, is how far to take it. I'd want to keep my fridge plugged in, and the furnace going if its freezing outside. The phone allows us to keep in touch with distant parents. Do we tell Mom that we can't call this weekend, or do we just call anyone and keep a diary of our exemptions, exceptions, and contraveniences? I think the contraveniences, if documented honestly, will help us understand the success of the weekend at the debrief.
Another question: Why the 18th century and not the 19th century or, for that matter, the 17th, 16th or 15th? Conceivably we might start with the 18th and then jump back in time to, say, the 14th century, complete with twice-a-day wagon rides through the village with cries of "Bring out yer dead!"
The 18th Century was more pre-technological than the 19th, when, as early as 1844, Samuel Morse figured out how to send messages across great distances, and soon people were dropping cables under the Atlantic.
But in reality we're not trying to recreate the past, much of which was, let us state clearly, a grinding horror. We're just trying to find ways to connect, be a bit more local, and neighborly, and maybe have more face-to-face conversations, and get a little exercise walking to the coffee shop rather than burning gasoline.
Simply turning the clock back to 1990 -- and quitting email for a couple of days -- would be liberating and revelatory. Maybe it should just be 1980s weekend, performed to the soundtrack of Madonna, Michael Jackson and Duran Duran.
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