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I don't think so. We had genocide and thousand-year periods of enslavement and colonialism and existential despair (and existentialism) and mechanization and atomization that led to the "elevation" and isolation of "nuclear" families from their social and historical contexts. We had racism and murder and sexual assault and lonely unemployed men who had nothing better to do than scapegoat entire populations and subjug…
To be honest not the arcade era, but what came after (home personal computers et al.) did really usher in one more reason to isolate in the comfort of one's own room.
I think you're right unless the person is disabled or almost anyone inside of an extreme religious context, or a context where they are a member of a small minority group.
But these exact arguments were made about book publishing, as they atomized a previously centralized worldview and community.