I've always assumed - intuitively so - that being exposed to Art does us good. I don't mean it makes us better people morally. I take that to be a very doubtful claim. But I've taken it for granted since late childhood that it makes us feel better on a deeper level than just being entertained (though that's not a bad thing in itself.)
Listening to great music, especially the live variety; looking at great art, especially the real thing in a gallery; reading great poetry, great prose, in complete absorption: three prominent forms of artistic experience that do me a world of good, and probably you too, Gentle Reader.
And today I stumbled upon proof of this of the scientific variety. I knew I would, one day. Nice to be vindicated. But, in truth, I think we all know this. It's part of our unfathomably deep programming.
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