We're disconnected from true values. You can see it in the way we live, the trappings of our lifestyles. Materialism has superseded spirituality. The vibrancy of human existence wanes. Art and enlightenment and joyful co-existence have all been subjugated by consumerism and 'thing' fetishism.
Individuals disappear into the machine.
I personally cannot remember meeting more than one person in my whole life who didn't seem driven by fear. Hold on, you say. Too far, you say. Well I believe that it is our disconnection from 'larger reality' that insists we all live in fear. And we do.