They’re inflatables. Highlighting the epidemic, the desperation, of loneliness, really. Kunstler is a good writer, as amals says.
Society changes. Eventually the norms change, and people accept isolation as normal. Everyone is isolated, they say, so it’s ok if I am too. Most people just want to be normal. Or at least to appear normal. That doesn’t make it natural, though. We are naturally a social being, we cannot survive without cooperating with others. Accepting your isolation as normal is ensuring your doom.
