the society that we live in is neither well balanced nor stable, maybe it's the well balanced and stable people who are best suited to removing themselves from it
If your social life if full of unbalanced and unstable people then it might well be time to consider seeking different people with which to socialise?
It also tends to be healthier in the long term to stay and deal with problems rather than try unsuccessfully to run away from them.
Again in my opinion from my experience.
That's probably true, I'd love to wander off & never see another person as long as I live............... & everyone who knows me could confirm that I'm not a particually well balanced individual.
I don't think there is a person alive or dead that hasn't dreamed of that at times.
It is a romantic notion of disappearing and being totally self sufficient.
In reality though there are very very few people that have been able to survive a long period of time on their own.
Fall and break a leg, come down with severe illness, getting older and becoming less mobile, need materials to carry out house repairs, failed crops, diseased live stock, the list of things that can happen that are potentially life threatening over the long term without a social group to "chip in".
The idea is great when sat at home next to the warm radiator, sat behind a PC screen connected to the internet which makes instant socialisation with anyone from around the planet, get Hungary and nip to the fridge to grab a processed snack that was grown, prepared, cooked/processed, wrapped, delivered and sold all by other people and it all seems like a great idea.
In reality though it would be a long and miserable existence for the vast vast majority of people i recon.
Speak to anyone that knows me and one of the things they'll say to describe me is "not exactly a people person" yet still i wouldn't want to live a life as an outcast having no social interaction with anyone else for long periods of time.
So hermits weren't mentally stable?
Dunno, never met one
