We have this tension between wanting to live alone, that things will go our way, while at the same time needing to be part of a community, share and be part of something bigger. Understanding that in the current world, it is harder and harder to live alone.
Again and again we get hurt by this animal called human.
So, we developed technology that will allow us not to ask questions in the street, in school, machines that will help us to write, study, work, we can even chat with machines/ slaves.
We live in a social system that cherishes the self. Healing practices that put the self in the center and blaming the self when things go wrong. Not only that, liberalism and spirituality joined forces, adopting Asian practices, psychology, and the market to create spirituality that its growth depends on you alone.