Letters to the Editor
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We are Lined with Eyes
The enteraction of people has changed with
the comeing of tv, air conditioning, a more
scattered population.
TV silenced families who listened to the figures on the screen, and air conditioning
drove people off the porch.
The "how was your day?" over coffee
was ritual in my parents' house hold. Enter TV
and the first question might be, "Did John
give her the ring?" "What happened in, not to,
"All My Children?"
People sat on the porch and spoke to neighbors passing by or walked over to speak to neighbors on their porches.
People did not move around so much and
neighbors bonded, often for an entire adult life.
Friendships moved easy in harness.
The content of talk among visitors fifty years ago was not so full of intimate topics and problems. There was a cozy and comfortable
bond, but also a distance that people inherintly
deleniated.
People today often have nobody to talk with.
Families scatter. Neighbors come and go. There is nobody close enough to hash out problems so
one mulls over them alone of lays a dollar down to bond with a therapist. People on subways do
not make eye contact. People have become more
individualized.
Little wonder we are lined with eyes.