NEW WORLD ORDER?

A lot going on in the world right now. A lot of thinking. a lot of reflection and a lot of anxiety.

We are beginning to go out into the world, a changed world, a world in which there are new considerations and old issues re-addressed. 

A brave new world or a soon forgotten moment? that's a question that's hard to answer but worth thinking about.

A pandemic has dominated most of the first half of the year and will be sitting at our shoulder for a long time to come. Inequality has been sitting at our collective shoulder for a long long time and is now dominating global thinking.

This blog is about popular culture and these issues have, and will, not only impact global culture on a continuing basis, but will resonate in popular culture. The arts have allowed people to express gratitude to those who have helped us stay healthy and show support for equality.
TV has bought us blow by blow coverage of things and has an opportunity to inform and discus
s things going forward. Cinema; reliant as it is on customers, will have to adapt ,and in regards to the power and influence films can have we may see the continuation of diversity being taken even further.

But what of music? This has for some time been the voice of youth and the way in which messages can be relayed.  Do we have the figures in the industry to produce 'music with a message'? I'm not so sure. But then again I am not a young person.

A global pandemic and a global movement. Two major events at the same time. Something we have never experienced before. I don't think that, until some point in the future when we look back, we can realise the enormity of the times we are living in.

Those on furlough have not been having a holiday; far from it. Furlough has meant less  income, uncertainty, concerns about returning and a disruption to routine along with anxiety about what the future holds. It has also allowed time for reflection and trying to project what the world will look like in practical terms.

With time to think, many will have had time to process the goings on in the USA and the way in which an act of horrific violence has led to a movement. Time to think will have also helped people recognise what needs to change.

As we renter blinking into a different world we all have to adapt and we all have to find ways to embrace the benefits of a more equal society. Going through a pandemic together should have united us but maybe it took the murder of a man to do that.