You're very welcome! If you end up reading any of Buber's work, I'd love to discuss it! (As you can imagine, "Buber's Philosophy" isn't something that most people care to sit around talking about, so it would be uniquely enjoyable for me...and I do think your worldview seems to match up very close with his, and consequently, mine).
It's probably hard for a lot of people to hold the kind of cognitive dissonance in their heads that's required to accept what you said and grasp insofar as human interaction is very complex in a broadly conceptual sense, but, at the same time, extremely simple when you drill down to the basic idea that human beings want and need to connect. That kind of connecting seems largely supra-rational insofar as it requires the kicking out of the ego and the kicking in of a more basic empathy.
But while I flail around trying to explain it here, you said it much better in your post, so again, it's very much appreciated and I hope a lot of people really read and absorb this!
Thanks again, and you should read The Dice Man if you haven't already, it's a disturbingly hilarious work of fiction, about a man trying to completely destroy his ego by letting a dice take all his decisions.
Cg