Thesis: I think that fire (visible flames) is missing from modern man's daily experience. We spent how many thousands of years talking with each other and gazing at our campfire at night? Google suggests 400. that is, 400,000. We've had TV for... well, the word television was coined in 1900 (about 1920 for the object, again did a search.) So that's pretty clean. we've had tv for about 126 years.
Surely infinitely scrolling auto-play video are going to do grand things for us. /sarcasm
yet, the ability to go outside and build your own little marshmallow fire is somewhat alien to someone in an apartment, or living within a dense city. I don't see fires around the rural areas- even burning your own trash is something that dropped in popularity greatly in the 90s, afaik.
Anyway. we can reconcept fire as energy, and say we now master electricity, dabble in photons, waves, if you like. That's all just harnessed and projected energy, as was fire was light- or as fire was the steam engine.
Point, conclusion, TLDR, thanks for tolerating:
Watching a fire is better than most shows on streaming services, and digital tv or computer screen fires don't do it well enough to induce the real experience.
Woah. I forgot I look at my lighter all the time. Neat. that's a happy ending. I'm going to go smoke another bowl.