Aimar

This might provoke and it might be that I am late to arrive. Anyway. Am I correct to assume that the extreme interest in the chilean miners are partly based on them being the last true workers from the industrial revolution?

That we have entered a time when the word labor and workers have a completely different perception and meaning depending on whom you talk to and off course, context.

It is like looking at the last specimen of a breed going into extinction. They suddenly are given different values. They might still be pawns, but now they are precious because they are fewer. 

We were at least able to save some of them in the mining accident in Chile.

Is there a nostalgia present here? Do you find this preposterous? 

While commuting this morning a worrying thought hit me. It might have been another pasenger on the bus, but the effect was still the same.

The word smell has become negative. Once upon a time this word was neutral. It didn´t say anything about the quality of the scent other than it´s mere existence. Today, my hunch tells me that smell is now reflected negative. Unless given a specific positive adjective.

Smell. Think about it. Humans smell, nature in general smell. And this is a good thing. It is a survival mechanism.

One memory from my childhood regarding smell is my father coming home from bike rides. Sweat. He smelled like a proper man. Today on the other hand I am worried that my son will one day make a scene when I enter the house from my bike rides. “Mom, why does daddy smell? Other dads doesn´t.”

Why bring this up? If my observation is correct this is a cultural change. A negative one if I might add. If this is correct I think we need a movement like “Smell It”.