Can people exist isolated from each other?
Question from the Internet:
“Are there any human beings who don’t suffer a lack of human interaction and can live without other people?”
I am certain that there are many people who think they could live on their own, without any contact with others. There are people who go “off the grid” and try to live a simple life, catering to their own necessities while totally disconnecting from society.
There are still tribes that live isolated from the rest of humanity. And there are also those who seemingly live in society and perform certain functions, but inside, they feel themselves totally cut off and indifferent to others.
And when we look at the direction especially western society is going, more and more people want to live alone, choose not to have partners or children on their own. Many, if not most western countries are in a negative balance regarding their population growth, with only large-scale immigration boosting their numbers, so we would not see the true picture.
And while these changes are most obvious in the West, the “developing” part of the world, coveting and copying the West in every possible way, is heading in the same direction. After all, it is our inherently egocentric, subjective, and individualistic human nature that is driving this process.
And it is all a truly Human tragedy. Although we sense ourselves as separated, unique individuals who can succeed and survive on their own, in truth, we are but individual cells in the same, mutually integrated, and mutually interdependent Human living organism, which Human organism is also an integral part of nature.
From nature’s point of view, we are not individuals at all, and nature’s laws do not make any calculations with individual human beings, only with the whole of humanity as a single entity.
And since we are born from and still exist in nature’s system, nature’s “viewpoint” and the strict and unchanging laws of nature that govern life and development are obligatory to us as they are to any other part or element of the system.
Thus it does not matter what we feel or think, how we imagine our individualistic lives disconnected from others. The more individualistic and separated we become, the more we try to “go solo” or “off the grid,” and we still stubbornly try to succeed and survive at the expense of others and nature, the closer we get to the global existential danger that is already very clearly seen on the horizon.
If we will survive and continue our Human development, that will not happen according to how we see or imagine ourselves. It will only happen if we willingly and consciously redirect and rearrange ourselves according to how nature “sees” us and expects us to exist and behave.
This has nothing to do with any of our arbitrary human ideologies, philosophies, or religions. It is simply because nature’s strict, unchanging, and unforgiving laws determine it.