Its sorta a wierd way to say it. Im not the last. There is still a whole host of folks alive my age and older. I have thought of it as sorta what defines the experiences of folks who are born around my time. For me its knowing an all analog world. I mean the integrated circuit was invented before my birth but most folks were not interacting with anything digital really. What stands out is space invaders showing up at the pinball arcade. I was very young. Like my first memories. None of my older siblings had been into pinball but for some reason we stopped in. I think my brother saw one of his friends. Anwyay there was a huge crowd around this space invaders game that im pretty sure was the first time the people had seen an electronic game. Slowly from there you saw other games, the pong at home thing, digital clocks. Arcades became things with mostly digital games and pinball became a smaller and smaller part of the arcade and home systems became better. odyseey, atari, vectrex, collegovision. digital watches and calculators became a thing. Word processors showed up before computers took the typewriters place. photocopiers took over for mimeograph machines. It was only a glimpse in my youngest years but I experienced an all analogue existence for a short span of my life.
I can’t imagine not thinking about other people, animals, the planet as I do things. Its funny though as with people close to me I sometimes get that im not empathetic enough but I think its because not only do I think of others when dealing with things for myself but also for my family or work and such. Are others more important than me or my family. well no but they aren’t necessarily less important. at least to them. yes my primary responsibility is to myself and next to my family and then to my locality and such. This is funny to as we have such a fairy tale romatic take on self sacrifice that one should put others above themselves but you have to think about long term ramifications of that. If you fall you will not be able to support your family or community so you have to really keep everything balanced. life is a marathon, not a sprint, and everything is interconnected so this balance is needed. Its one reason I don’t tend to start a haggle. I will propose what I think the most fair arrangement is and usually the other person will gage this as some super in my favor stance and just have a rediculous response and then its over.
I was thinking that. If it was remote during meetings you could alternate being face or listening lying on a couch.