dealing with reality?

Isn’t it funny how in this mature era of discovery in the human chapters, with all of our technology and advances- our most ‘civilized’ societies have become computer burdened recluses in our four walled shelters?
Scientists have only begun to recently (within the past few decades) remark on the necessity of the human spirit and soul to require the essence of physical contact and touch. They have spoken of the infant chimps who barely survived in angst when neglected of caress; and of the abandoned orphan children near Chernobyl in Russia. The toddlers and pre-adolescent ages behaviors are marked with desperate self-hugging and rocking in place, as though to attempt to grasp a rhythm of a loving physical, tangible heartbeat. The eyes are hollowed symbols of fear and anger, representing the war of the spirit trapped in a physical form that seems doomed to remain segregated from life itself, unwanted, untouched, and unloved. When approached, these spirits that learned only to fear living, cannot comprehend the sensitivities of those who have found the joy of experience in this life. These isolated souls react defensively, again in fear, anger, even jealousy and hatred from any reproach by those of us fortunate enough to grow understanding our physical connections. These souls, are expressing the most genuine form of stress, some even choosing death without ever realizing why.
Why then, do we think we become less in need of such contact now? The years of science and technology has brought us amazing abilities to communicate with wireless transmissions and video plug ins. What an interesting way we interpret ‘staying in touch’. After all the surveys, studies and articles are reviewed- a majority of people in this society are depressed, lonely, ‘needing a hug’. There was a viral video the other year, of people performing ‘random hugs’. After the Virginia Tech shooting, students were giving ‘free hugs’. People go on desperate consumer spending sprees, focus on money and work, crave attention and ‘hook up’ for random sexual encounters, act wildly or lash out all for the sake of something missing in their lives. We have become, so used to a disparity of ‘touch’ and face to face community, replacing it with Facebook and Twitter, My Space and wireless devices, that we seem to be regressing to a state of angst. We tell ourselves to ‘meditate’, to reduce stress, to take vacations. Pharmacy companies and doctors have made it a billion dollar industry to prescribe SSRI’s for SAD. People can no longer handle drama and traumatic events of life (real human emotional ones) anymore in this society. We have become digressed away from core human primal matters and depths of our psyche in pursuit of the "image", "advancement", "material", etc. We force ourselves to ‘snap out of it’ – afraid to admit to ourselves our need for human contact. We are told by corporations and “modern” communities that we ‘ought’ to ‘toughen up’ and survive. Promoters advertise the ‘lone heroes’ and the solo nature travelers as ‘amazing’. Stories of the lone survivors and lone champions are projected as success--- as the strongest and bravest. We are taught we are supposed to overcome, without needing others.
However, eventually, almost none of the ‘loners’ exist truly ‘alone’ their entire lives. Alone people eventually have pets, friends in nature, and companions with whom to grow. Or, they had an amazing support system through out periods of their lives, regardless of spiritual self-strength. It is through this physical contact that our emotional and core human creativity can be supported to grow. This has been a principle root required for intuitive survival, development of societies, discoveries and ingenuity of sciences that advanced us to present day. Without it, we are lost and incapable regardless of our "advances". Facing, living, allowing and dealing with this truth makes us stronger, better, more creative, more intelligent and satisfied (happier) humans with more confidence to face every situation in life with compassion; and stronger in each individual position.
Perhaps we need to study this and realize we grow from connectivity and contact throughout our entire lives and not just during a critical moments of childhood. Perhaps there might have even been an intentional moment during our technological growth that caused us to segregate ourselves from each other. Perhaps by rejecting isolation, we might find new levels of understanding and depend less on self-destructive behavior, anxiety control medication and shopping sprees as forms to fill the voids. Perhaps we need this to remember our connectivity to each other, the world and the universe….