Those who have already grasped computers at age four will never experience the 'Net as the domain of rebellion. The parents, meanwhile, remain chained to their home terminals, forever unable to break free. They find their peers in miscellaneous media and use them to share their despair. Locked inside a perfect world, they simply cannot imagine that anyone would have it any other way. The primary socialization of people into ill-behaved adolescents, with all the accompanying biological deviations, makes the media into meaningless institutions that neither exercise authority nor manage to inspire.
Modern parents lose their last anchor, now that even computers no longer offer a solution.
There is no way back, now that the family as a network has been disrupted. The family was never functional to begin with. If anything, it resembled a hedonistic pack, unable to think of better pastimes than harassment, gossip, fooling around, blood and mayhem, ambitious plans, bad eating habits, excessive drinking and disenchantment. Actually existing electronic loneliness cannot be expressed in metaphysical or psychiatric terms. It is not a matter of profound melancholy but of shallow artificiality.