Speed-dating

Well, I have to confess, it looked kind of fun. At the end things took a turn for the worst when they called the people over, gave them their "matches" and told them how they could get online in order to get in touch with them and "meet thousands of other people on the Internet." So it almost takes the look of a marketing ploy by some Internet dating company. This is a bit of a fad though. I heard about it a couple times in England. Anyway, I guess I have to support anything that requires people making face-to-face conversation with other people...even if it is in a perverse "dawn of civilization" kind of way. This sort of operates like a trick. People today complain all the time about "how hard it is to meet people." The fact that enough people are complaining about how hard this is and that a whole market of so-called solutions has grown around it suggests it might not be that hard, anyway...this tricks people into thinking they can meet someone in a couple minutes and the initiative is given...kind of like getting a cheeseburger at McDonald's or a fax from Tokyo. The catch is that you find out that you still have to be a human being when the situation arises. We are not very good at that anymore, but when we are forced or deceived into it rarely, though from time to time, we recover a touch of our species-being again. So I offer my tentative support to speed-dating so long as it is not organized by people who are trying to sell subscriptions to Internet dating sites. I still think their are better ways to meet people, but we are too far gone to waste hope on at this point. But what the heck, you can get a 99 cent cheeseburger at McDonald's in a couple minutes! There is always that...