Re your conclusion "get off our couch and move, find meaningful relationships to help reduce social anxiety and depression and eat delicious healthy whole food", I heartily agree.
On a certain Greek island, where I spend a few weeks every year, these behaviors are easy. They naturally fall out of the common life of the islanders. Not for all, and even maybe not for most, but certainly for way greater percentage than for us Americans living in cities and suburbs.
For us people who grew up in such places, who would have thought that a society could change so radically that the simple behavior in the quote above is just too hard to imagine for the vast majority of people?
p.s. Enough time on my computer. I'm heading to chop wood.
Re your conclusion "get off our couch and move, find meaningful relationships to help reduce social anxiety and depression and eat delicious healthy whole food", I heartily agree.
On a certain Greek island, where I spend a few weeks every year, these behaviors are easy. They naturally fall out of the common life of the islanders. Not for all, and even maybe not for most, but certainly for way greater percentage than for us Americans living in cities and suburbs.
For us people who grew up in such places, who would have thought that a society could change so radically that the simple behavior in the quote above is just too hard to imagine for the vast majority of people?
p.s. Enough time on my computer. I'm heading to chop wood.
So true. Physical activities is baked into many cultures but not ours. I barley find young people and kids on hiking trails nowadays.