I blame the fact that nowadays it's possible to live your entire life comfortably in solitude. People used to form relationships not out of pleasure, but out of

I blame the fact that nowadays it's possible to live your entire life comfortably in solitude. People used to form relationships not out of pleasure, but out of necessity - it was impossible to farm land without family, and even in a city it was difficult to get shit done without at least some connections with neighbors and such. Once this necessity disappeared because most services started to function perfectly, so did social connections.