Living in a city, I travel to work each day. Carriages full of people. It doesn't matter how many humans there are, packed into a tiny space, we're all separate inside ourselves. It doesn't matter how close we are, bodies pressed against one another, elbow to ribs and arm against shoulder, we avoid each others eyes.

Let me be clear: I do not think this is a bad thing. As human beings we are driven by two separate and conflicting impulses. The desire to be alone and the desire to make connections within our web of community. It's when our communities become unwieldy, too large to know each individual personally that we need rules to ensure our interactions remain civil.

Civil. Civilised. Another word for "Too many damn people and they're not allowed to kill each other." Intelligence goes against instinct goes against emotion. And those neo-savagists are completely miss the point. We can't go back, we can only go forward and hope we find something that works.

I hope we find something that works.