Human beings' constant struggle: because as social beings, we feel the need for interaction and human contact, yet it is necessary to keep at a reasonable distance from each other so as not to hurt one another..."A “company of porcupines” who “crowded themselves very close together one cold winter’s day so as to profit by one another’s warmth and so save themselves from being frozen to death. But soon they felt one another’s quills, which induced them to separate again.” And so on. The porcupines were “driven backwards and forwards from one trouble to the other,” until they found “a mean distance at which they could most tolerably exist.”
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/26/prochnik.php
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