Unpaid internships, team-building exercises and requests to “tell us how we did” are all long overdue for cancellation WorldAhead
for a catchy phrase with which to capture the 2020s thus far could do worse than “cancel culture”. Over the past two years, pretty much everything that could be cancelled has been cancelled: travel, weddings, conferences, sports events, elections, celebrities, intellectuals, minor public figures, even people nobody had hitherto heard of. The pandemic cancelled anything involving human contact in the real world. Activists, journalists and the easily offended cancelled everything else.
All this is a shame. Like working from home, taking fewer unnecessary flights or learning to cook, some of the habits acquired during the pandemic are worth keeping. Cancelling things, if not people, is one of them. Cancellers have a wealth of other sporting options to choose from. Qatar’s winning bid to host the men’s football World Cup in 2022 has been marred by allegations of corruption and worker exploitation. The women’s Cricket World Cup in 2022 is a showcase for the increasingly irrelevant one-day format. And America’s Super Bowl has about ten minutes of filler for every minute of play, which nobody would miss if it disappeared.
Other obvious examples include leaf-blowers, lift music, car alarms and in-person parent-teacher meetings—which, having been cancelled during the pandemic, should remain cancelled indefinitely. Online, “service fees” for virtual bookings, requests to “tell us how we did” and cookie banners are all long overdue for cancellation—as, ironically, are excessive cancellation fees.
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