Introduction Many years ago, people in the United States seemed to live in harmony with their surroundings. There was no pollution because of civilization and industrialization. White clouds would drift above the green fertile earth in the winter. During the autumn, maple, oak, and birch would set up color blazes that flickered and flamed across tall pines. Earth was peaceful, and travelers could enjoy the beautiful scenery such as wildflowers, great ferns, alder, viburnum, and laurel. The countryside gained much popularity due to the abundance and variety of birds. However, years later, green farmlands, fresh air, and peace vanished from the earth due to humans’ inventions and industrial development. One creation –technology – has devastated people through cell phones and social media. Modern know-how have caused problems to human relationships with their bodies, other persons, and the environment, whereas the United States citizens have a flawed interpretation of enlightenment because they have attacked nature. Technology and Human Relationships Modern technologies have adverse effects on human relationships with the nonhuman world, each other, and their bodies. Automation hampers sensuous engagement and collapses psychic space. Recent technologies have changed the rules of interaction involving people and their environment. Most people rely heavily on technology such as mobile devices and messaging applications that allow streamlined task completion at the expense of the time to connect with other people and the environment. Overexposure to contemporary technologies causes a disconnect between the environment and people, leading to a lack of empathy to participate in good causes such as conserving the environment (Melmed 345). As a result, people lose the psychic boundaries that enable them to have mental dignity and identity. When psychic space is lost, people are vulnerable to intolerance of frustration, causing humans’ excessive dependence on the high-technology world. For example, self-driving cars have given people a sense of omnipotence and invincibility, creating a dissociation of individuals from their bodies (Melmed 350). Contrastingly, cell phones depict an example of an addictive technology that affords individuals material convenience and hinders honing enchanted sensory capacities. Therefore, people are compelled to innovate new machinery to solve new problems but fail to consider the consequences of their extractivism. Humans invented automation; however, technology has reinvented people at significant basic levels, reshaping their relationship to place and time. The problem caused by modern technologies leads to climate catastrophe and loss of primary aloneness. People’s activities have caused the environmental crisis, which exacerbates future pandemics, low air quality, and poor nutrition. Food security and resources have dwindled, and human interaction with unknown pathogens has increased (Melmed 349). Current technologies restrict primary loneliness, suppressing a sense of obligation and deeper communion to the environment and other individuals. Civilization and United States Citizens United States citizens have a flawed perception of civilization due to their attack on nature. For instance, giant compan