re: #310 Justanotherhuman

Letters were often the only form of communication. I’m from the time when letters were a common phenomenon and a personal letter in the mail box was celebrated. By the time I was a teen, though, the telephone was replacing the letter as a primary form of communication, although it took a while for long distance calling to be affordable for most.

I still prefer the telephone for intimate conversations if I can’t have them in person.

This didn’t really address anything I asked you.

It does show, however, that the change has not been just a linear one: in this case, you’re saying we went from text communication (letters) to verbal (phone) and back to text (emails and texting).

Still, i’m interested in the idea that ‘stress’ has increased over time. There definitely are a ton of stressors in modern-life, but there really aren’t any classes of stress that weren’t present in past societies too, and there are a lot of stresses we’re much less exposed to, like pandemic and famine.