"We less and less meet our fellow man to share and exchange, and more and more encounter him as an impediment or nuisance: making the highway more crowded when we are rushing somewhere, cluttering and littering the beach or park or wood, pushing in front of us at the supermarket, taking the last parking place, polluting our air and water, building a highway through our house, blocking our view, and so on. Because we have cut off so much communication with each other we keep bumping into each other, and thus a higher and high percentage of our interpersonal contacts are abrasive."
-Philip Slater, The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point (1970).
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