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Thread #166789   Message #4020808
Posted By: Iains
22-Nov-19 - 10:56 AM
Thread Name: The current state of folk music in UK
Subject: RE: The current state of folk music in UK
@Nick Dow. Difficult to answer. I know I will still be male but I cannot answer for the rest of humanity.

But Timothy Leary said over 50 years ago:
"Turn on, tune in, drop out"
and:The Digital Revolution and Adolescent Brain Evolution

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3432415/

......... the main findings to emerge from the research process found that new media technologies within the home are leading to increased social isolation and a privatisation of people’s lives within the household.

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/default/files/assets/document/SiobhanMcGrath.pdf

If social isolation is to become the norm, "the future could be interesting" in the Chinese sense of the phrase
A bit of an extreme view but perhaps this is a moment in time and things will change again, for nothing is static.