I know there is always a perceived risk in authenticity. I am not advocating indiscriminate disclosure; there is the matter of situational appropriateness.
Without deep connection, the human beings in our lives become objects, entities, boxes on our to-do lists. I have to say, this is not good. This sucks.
We will find some way to subvert the supposed means of radical and irreversible transformation -- meditation -- into another game of our egoistic foolery.