Approximately two years ago a friend of mine who is a talented sculptor remarked that one of the benefits the world would see from the CoVid-19 quarantines would be a resurgence in the popularity of the arts, to the point they would supplant sports as the leisure time activity of choice.
His supposition was based on the fact that most sports required other people to play - anywhere from 22 people (11 to a side) for a soccer match to 6 people (3 to a side) for a game of over-the-line, and that most arts required just one person, be it painter, sculptor, poet or playwright.
I made a note of his prediction (not a mental note - those fade quickly - a real pen on paper note) and filed it in my ideas-to-follow-up-on file.
Well, here it is, two years later and despite all the turmoil and whatnot, sports are still as popular as ever, and arts are still, well, still.
Which leads me to believe that the single most popular leisure time activity in the world has become...spectating.
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