With loneliness comes the feeling of being unreachable. Metaphors like: there being a 'gap' or a 'wall' between you and others, are often used when talking about loneliness. There are people that say our use of technology is to blame. The screens we surround ourselves with - our phones, laptops, tablets - are like mediators between us and the outside world. We hide behind our gadgets and avoid confrontation that way. Behind our screens we feel protected - protected against the friction that might arise in real life contact - and in that protection lies a tendency to seclusion. Though we shouldn't forget that this technology was designed to achieve exactly this: keep you in your own little bubble. Besides that I think that our surrender to neoliberalism has caused individualism to dominate. In our worldview we see ourselves fundamentally cut off from others, denying the basic need of meaningful human contact.