There’s a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it. In the face of technology everything becomes a little… atavistic.
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word ‘love’ here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace — not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
James Baldwin | The Fire Next Time