Meetings. Why?

Does this conversation need to be a meeting? Does anything?

Humanity has spent millenniums confined within the earthly limbo of meetings. Ancient Egyptians, to name one subset of mankind, had multiple hieroglyphs to convey the concept of “council.” From this, we can infer that at least some of them spent pockets of time assembled in groups for the purpose of consultation, a council without meetings being like a rodeo without bulls: just a bunch of clowns sitting around. Four thousand years later, the council gathering has evolved into infinite permutations: the “stand-up,” the “all-hands,” the “check-in” and “the post-mortem,” to list a sampling with hyphens. And when a global pandemic precluded all but the most essential in-person congregations, humans invented new methods of meetings, no more able to resist their pull than moon-drawn waves can resist charging into shore to wreck upon its edge.