So because of the phone machine, what you can have is two people that don’t really ever want to talk, and the phone machine is like this relationship respirator keeping these marginal, brain-dead relationships alive. Why do we do this? Because when we come home we want to see that little flashing red light. And go, “All right, messages.” People need that. It’s very important for human beings to feel they are popular and well-liked amongst a large group of people that they have no interest in.
