[Tax Government]

Without writing a big treatise, I believe this:

In the last couple thousand years, and especially the last few hundred, our culture has switched from an oral one to a visual one.

For millions of years, we relied on interpersonal communication, speech and music to create and maintain our society. Now, a big part of the culture is visual.

I contend the visual channel is overtaxed, and inadequate to create the two-way communcation on which our emotional health depends. We were active participants in the oral tradition, but are much more passive and overloaded in the visual culture.

This is just an idea to throw into the mix.

On FR we are actually overcoming one of the deficits of the visual culture, by using it for two-way communication. That is very healthy and restorative, imho.

[Tax Government]

And, it's no accident that music and personal communication play a big role in treating depression. They are exactly the things that our visual society has deemphasized. Many of us feel a need to return to a more oral/aural society, and the lack of that is affecting well being and emotional state.

[Burn24]

I think you've made a really good point. Probably why this Forum is so addictive.