Thalassa
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Thank you for your thoughtful contribution.
And your thoughtful contribution does open the door to leaving alienation and self estrangement behind and becoming at home in our own skin.
Thank you, but I'm not even sure anymore that the Internet can ever foster a better level of emotional or social health. While it may stimulate people intellectually and some people actually use this to learn, it seems to me that this atmosphere will just make emotionally unhealthy people even more emotionally unhealthy. ..or simply lock them in place, like a hamster wheel of sorts, stranding them wherever they are in their emotional or social development, whether that be adolescent polemics, or prim authoritarian moderation ...two sides of the same coin, really, people childlike in either their conformity or rebellion. ..and the problem is that people are drawing from the same stagnant pool of surface emotions (without the nuances of body language, facial expressions, tone of voice, and human touch) so how could anyone. ..including myself ..."heal" in such a social environment?
Also, maybe it's partly physical. Maybe the more removed humans become from nature, the more insane they become.
I'm not romanticizing tribal life, but there is a condition known as "techno-despair" which can make people depressed, irritable, even angry by spending too much time on technology. ..and some studies have shown people in cultures who materially have less than Americans as a whole, are actually emotionally or spiritually happier.
Always nice talking with you Mole.