the “conveyor belts” running through individuals’ lives growing “longer and more complex”, requiring us to “attune” our conduct to the actions of others, and becoming the dominant influence on our existence, so that we are less “prisoners of our passions” and more captive to the requirements of an increasingly complex “web of actions”, particularly a demand for “constant hindsight and foresight in interpreting the actions and intentions of others.” (cited in Van Krieken 1998, 4)