Are you sure about that, because there are 2 kinds of connections in a society:

• Voluntary individualism - what we should aspire towards, each on it's own, but voluntary joining together if they want
• Coercive families - which is what we had in the past, the father literally beat his kids into submission? Like is that a "strong family" values to you.

Beacause I think the "good old days" are very overlooked, the amount of violence in the past was exponentially higher, than what we have now, even with all the police brutality and things like that.

So we haven't been disconnected from eachother, we have just lost the coercive ties to eachother.