Also, humans are genetically primed to live in small groups where you actually do KNOW someone whose FACE you know.

See someone repeatedly on television and you have a hard time believing you don't really know them. Modern media has completely messed with us in that regard, in the same way that forest animals don't understand that walking out on the highway with 60mph traffic is dangerous. We SEE celebrities and news readers and politicians and think we know who they are and what they're like -- but we've never even MET them, much less spent months or years knowing them personally and hearing from our neighbors about them and so on.

Humans aren't just "lost in the head", we're lost in an unnatural high-tech world that fools our ancient, zero-tech brains and hearts. Like an optical illusion, modern life is not what it seems in many ways.

Also, humans are genetically primed live in small groups where you actually do KNOW someone whose FACE you know.

See someone repeatedly on television and you have a hard time believing you don't really know them. Modern media has completely messed with us in that regard, in the same way that forest animals don't understand that walking out on the highway with 60mph traffic is dangerous. We SEE celebrities and news readers and politicians and think we know who they are and what they're like -- but we've never even MET them, much less spent months or years knowing them personally and hearing from our neighbors about them and so on.

Humans aren't just "lost in the head", we're lost in an unnatural high-tech world that fools our ancient, zero-tech brains and hearts. Like an optical illusion, modern life is not what it seems in many ways.