An enourmous technology seems to have set itself the task of making it unnecessary for one human being ever to ask anything of another in the course of going about his daily business. We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it.
-Philip Slater

Looking at that statement, it sounds like foolishness, but having experienced the phenomenon, I identify myself with the carcinogenic force of human selfishness and seek remedy with contrition.