This is my response to the latest @abundance.tribe's Bi-weekly question: [How has your energetic experience changed during this collective experience?](https://peakd.com/hive-181465/@abundance.tribe/abundance-tribe-s-biweekly-question-how-has-your-energetic-experience-changed-during-this-global-pandemic)  

I'm sure there's something of a shift in planetary consciousness going on, with people getting back to more authentic connectivity, both at a local and a global level. 

'Social distancing' may mean fewer people being out and about on the streets, but social distancing only applies to other humans, so there's more space for nature, and I can't be the only human whose been enjoying the more visible presence of trees and the birds and so on, in the absence of so many humans. 

![20200523_074246.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/revisesociology/ZVwzGJzI-20200523_074246.jpg)
_My local park a fe days ago, empty but not empty!_

And as to humans, I'm sure social distancing is creating something of a longing for more genuine connectivity with other people outside of those in our isolation circles - I get the feeling that this emerging norm of 'staying physically apart' is somehow making people feel more connected to each other - and creating more of a widespread longing for connection for the sake of connection, rather than just because of mutual self-interest. 

If this crisis was engineered to mask an inevitable economic crash, and to make the population easier to control, I think it may have backfired. 

I think instead people are at home, reflecting on what they really need and realising they really don't need work and money and consumer durables all that much, what they need is nature and people and connection for the sake of connection, and they don't need Governments or Corporations for that. 

And people are coming together to help each other at the local level, while realising that the world over the same is happening, which seems to suggest that there is, possibly, something of a new counter-culture emerging around just being, and not around the usual cliques of non-necessity, maybe, hopefully. 

Of course people who watch a lot of Television may not be getting this feeling, so I may be way out!