No one applauds anymore.
I was at the circus with my family a couple of months ago, and virtually no one clapped for anything.
A woman fired herself out of a cannon. Nothing.
A man walked upside-down along the rafters of the stadium we were in by hooking his feet into tiny ropes. Not one round of applause.
A performer balanced a running chainsaw on his chin while juggling household appliances. I looked over and saw a man playing Tetris on his cell phone.
I made it a point of compensating for the lack of claptitude by applauding as loudly and for as long as I could...
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