Eliminating ceremonial distance between people produces estrangement, not intimacy.

Evidence

The abolition of privilege by bourgeois reason finally abolishes this promise too. If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one’s own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straightforward. Every sheath interposed between men in their transactions is felt as a disturbance to the functioning of the apparatus, in which they are not only objectively incorporated but with which they proudly identify themselves. … Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. For only as long as they abstain from importuning one another with giving and taking, discussion and implementation, control and function, is there space enough between them for the delicate connecting filigree of external forms in which alone the internal can crystallize. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 36

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the learned corpus on silence and listening: ceremony and form here play the role that distance and pauses play in sound, the space in which meaning crystallizes. — connects to: Influencer intimacy is manufactured, not genuine social closeness.; Continuing intimacy requires each person to remain partly indistinct; Modernity does not replace intimacy with impersonality but transforms it through distancing — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 343 (+2 more)
• CANDY: The reversal ‘estrangement shows itself in the elimination of distance’ and the rope-in-a-hanged-man’s-home taboo against naming business is a compact, shareable paradox for a dinner-table.

Broader Connections

• Influencer intimacy is manufactured, not genuine social closeness. #exemplifies (0.85)
• Continuing intimacy requires each person to remain partly indistinct #corroborates (0.80)
• Modernity does not replace intimacy with impersonality but transforms it through distancing #qualifies (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 343
• Critical distance requires withdrawal from public opinion, not from people #expands (0.72) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 481