Today we are losing the fixed time structures and time architectures (we call this flexibilization), which stabilize and enliven life.
It is precisely the lack of rhythm that makes the depression worse.
Rituals also create communion without communication, whereas today communication without communion prevails.
Even residual rituals such as football, concerts, visits to restaurants, the theater or the cinema are being abolished.
The lack of greeting rituals throw us back on ourselves.
The warm greeting of the other would relieve us of ourselves.
Social distancing breaks down the social.
It makes us tired.
The other is now just a potential virus carrier from whom it is important to keep a distance.
The virus actually acts like an amplifier of the crises of our present day.