In the world of computer programming, one of the popular concepts and catch phrases now is "Object Oriented Programming" usually shortened to OOP.  Popular languages of today such as Java  force programmers to write object oriented code.  Older languages such as COBOL are being updated to do the same.  
    A basic concept of this approach is that objects ( a car, an apple, a check) has an existence completely independent of other objects and attributes (apple is round, red) and methods (what it does, ie: grow on a tree) that are completely independent of other objects as well.  
    That concept may be a good one to help simplify the writing of todays tremendously complex systems but, in reality, it simply isn't true.  The apple is not independent of the tree.  The tree is not independent of the earth it's rooted in.  The earth is not independent of the sun, etc.  Unfortunately, there are many people today who seem to believe that OOP is real and they are Object Oriented People.  They believe they are totally independent of other people, the society and the world they live in.  They too are dealing with a non-reality, a fantasy.  We are not independent, we are part of the whole.