emotional unavailability

noun. a hallmark symptom of the "postmodern condition." experienced by approximately 70% of the afflicted. Ironically (oh yeah, I said the I-word), emotional unavailability is often accompanied by profound loneliness, fears of dying alone, a sense of unloveability, and a desperate desire to connect with anyone in some real way. verbal claims of self-loathing may be used by the sufferer to avoid seeming narcissistic.

how clever of postmodernity to throw this one at us. so paradoxically cool.