There is one facet to this which I find interesting -- and that's how disconnected we become from the emotional impact of our decisions. In a small closed comm

There is one facet to this which I find interesting -- and that's how disconnected we become from the emotional impact of our decisions. In a small closed community, we cannot help but be part of a system of social and emotional feedback. The decisions that we make have consequences, and this is very much the social environment that we have evolved for (confined to prehistory for obvious reasons). Those feedback loops have been largely severed in "modern" (i.e. last few thousand years) large-scale, urbanized, literate societies -- a fundamental change in the control systems that govern human behavior. With so many of us running partially open-loop ... is it any wonder that we see a proliferation of pathological behaviors? Can our latest (early 21st century) technology help to restore some of those connections? To help us get feedback on the impact of our speech, our writing, our choices? Could this help us re-establish an earlier, more natural way of relating and connecting to our fellow human beings?