I agree with your point about solitude. But your lens is colored by some pretty big cultural shifts that you don't acknowledge. The first is our excessive emphasis on the individual as the source/being/perspective of human experience. This is not actually the way we've existed for most of history. (Solitude in this original sense, wouldn't result in the school shootings we've seen from the dangerous male arch-type you didn't acknowledge) The next is the explosion of human connection that has ramped itself up incoherently over the past 100 years. Our ability to travel places so quickly, to communicate from across the globe if we wish. And do so seemingly in a transparent and meaningful way (which Covid fortunately disproved e.g. zoom is not a real way to meet and engage each other as fully human). These two factors have huge impacts for what we mean by isolation, community, purpose all leveraged towards answering the question of how does human flourishing happen?
I think I agree with you that loneliness isn't the problem. The problem is much greater than one social pattern, and that pattern is a symptom of a larger social malaise that deserves a conversation that includes a great deal more than the few camps you've identified.
I agree with your point about solitude. But your lens is colored by some pretty big cultural shifts that you don't acknowledge. The first is our excessive emphasis on the individual as the source/being/perspective of human experience. This is not actually the way we've existed for most of history. (Solitude in this original sense, wouldn't result in the school shootings we've seen from the dangerous male arch-type you didn't acknowledge) The next is the explosion of human connection that has ramped itself up incoherently over the past 100 years. Our ability to travel places so quickly, to communicate from across the globe if we wish. And do so seemingly in a transparent and meaningful way (which Covid fortunately disproved e.g. zoom is not a real way to meet and engage each other as fully human). These two factors have huge impacts for what we mean by isolation, community, purpose all leveraged towards answering the question of how does human flourishing happen?
I think I agree with you that loneliness isn't the problem. The problem is much greater than one social pattern, and that pattern is a symptom of a larger social malaise that deserves a conversation that includes a great deal more than the few camps you've identified.