Is it safe to live completely alone and isolated?

[KobraByte]

I hate socializing and I have no desire to have friends, girlfriends, etc. It's not because I'm isolated from the outside world itself, I've just always been this way. I'm almost 90% it's social anxiety but I really don't care, I just hate people and I want to move somewhere where I have absloutely ZERO interaction with the rest of the world, is this safe to do? I have no desire to become social but I'm afraid I'll go insane alone.

EDIT: I thought it through and realized that my immature assumption that being alone in a huge world is much harder than it seems. I'll try and get some help with what I think might be extreme social anxiety and reach out to some new people. Moderators, please delete this discussion, thanks everyone for the help.

[Johari]

Not really. You'll go bonkers at some point if you have absolutely no interaction with other people, and you're not hardcore enough to live the life of a hermit anyway.

[TwinEdgedBastard]

There have been people who have done this.
If you have no desire for human contact then might I suggest a pet to keep you from being lonely.

[Futuro Dorado]

I think that everyone, no matter who you are, can benefit from a little social contact. Even if you're shy.

Trust me, I'm quite shy and I really don't have a lot of friends in real life, but it's still very good to talk to people.

So, is it safe to live alone? Yes. Is it good for you? Not really. By nature we're social creatures after all. I think if you found some good friends and kept them close you'd be better off. You need some degree of social skills today anyway, if you want to have a job. Even if the job doesn't have you talking to other people, you need to be able to interact with your co-workers to a certain extent.

[Tux]

its a LOT easier now than it is based on 'conventional wisdom' because the older way of thinking about isolation didnt have the internet, lifetime supply of movies, TV,games, music, books, facebook

Spending the week alone at home in 2015 is very different then it was in 1990 and I dont think those who 'study' socialization take this into account.

[TwinEdgedBastard]

引用自 Type 1 Archibetes：

引用自 Иван：

Not really. You'll go bonkers at some point if you have absolutely no interaction with other people, and you're not hardcore enough to live the life of a hermit anyway.

Well I was thinking Alaska and I definitely have good enough outdoors skills to handle Alaska.

Have you been reading/watching "Into the wild"?



SPOILER!
He dies at the end

[Tux]

引用自 Futuro Dorado：

I think that everyone, no matter who you are, can benefit from a little social contact. Even if you're shy.

Trust me, I'm quite shy and I really don't have a lot of friends in real life, but it's still very good to talk to people.

So, is it safe to live alone? Yes. Is it good for you? Not really. By nature we're social creatures after all. I think if you found some good friends and kept them close you'd be better off. You need some degree of social skills today anyway, if you want to have a job. Even if the job doesn't have you talking to other people, you need to be able to interact with your co-workers to a certain extent.

I think that is a myth.
I think by nature we are 'input feedback' creatures. Its just that prior to the electronic age the only way to get a good feedback loop based on your inputs is socialization. Now however you can get that from computers.

[bear]

How old are you? I once felt the same way very strongly and part of me always will but that phase of my life passed as many do. Decisions, actions, and life style choices now will affect you more down the road than you think. Tread lightly with this life. Its preciously pointless.

[Johari]

引用自 Tux：

its a LOT easier now than it is based on 'conventional wisdom' because the older way of thinking about isolation didnt have the internet, lifetime supply of movies, TV,games, music, books, facebook

Spending the week alone at home in 2015 is very different then it was in 1990 and I dont think those who 'study' socialization take this into account.

But you need money to pay for those luxuries, and money requires a job, and a job requires interacting with people. Which is what OP is trying to get away from by sending himself back to the stone age, buried deep in the boonies in his cozy log cabin as far away from civilization as possible.

Source:

引用自 Type 1 Archibetes：

I just hate people and I want to move somewhere where I have absloutely ZERO interaction with the rest of the world

I was thinking Alaska and I definitely have good enough outdoors skills to handle Alaska

[Futuro Dorado]

引用自 Tux：

引用自 Futuro Dorado：

I think that everyone, no matter who you are, can benefit from a little social contact. Even if you're shy.

Trust me, I'm quite shy and I really don't have a lot of friends in real life, but it's still very good to talk to people.

So, is it safe to live alone? Yes. Is it good for you? Not really. By nature we're social creatures after all. I think if you found some good friends and kept them close you'd be better off. You need some degree of social skills today anyway, if you want to have a job. Even if the job doesn't have you talking to other people, you need to be able to interact with your co-workers to a certain extent.

I think that is a myth.
I think by nature we are 'input feedback' creatures. Its just that prior to the electronic age the only way to get a good feedback loop based on your inputs is socialization. Now however you can get that from computers.

That's a very good point, actually.

[Tux]

引用自 Иван：

引用自 Tux：

its a LOT easier now than it is based on 'conventional wisdom' because the older way of thinking about isolation didnt have the internet, lifetime supply of movies, TV,games, music, books, facebook

Spending the week alone at home in 2015 is very different then it was in 1990 and I dont think those who 'study' socialization take this into account.

But you need money to pay for those luxuries, and money requires a job, and a job requires interacting with people. Which is what OP is trying to get away from by sending himself back to the stone age, buried deep in the boonies in his cozy log cabin as far away from civilization as possible.

Source:

引用自 Type 1 Archibetes：

I just hate people and I want to move somewhere where I have absloutely ZERO interaction with the rest of the world

I was thinking Alaska and I definitely have good enough outdoors skills to handle Alaska

needing a job in order to have money so that you can be isolated is not evidence that human beings are biologically in need of each other.

There are people who never have to work in their life, are the biologically different? no they are economically different. It has to be a reason that is intrinsic to being physically a human

[Tux]

引用自 Futuro Dorado：

引用自 Tux：

I think that is a myth.
I think by nature we are 'input feedback' creatures. Its just that prior to the electronic age the only way to get a good feedback loop based on your inputs is socialization. Now however you can get that from computers.

That's a very good point, actually.

awesome!

this is why I think most if not all our studies on human various conditions should be re-evaluated with technology in mind but also do do that evaluation 'correctly' so to speak.

One could go out and proove that technology has made us less social and leave the assumption that its a bad thing and not do a study how is there a positive (or rather 'non-negitive') reason for it.

[theUSguy425]

Maybe move somewhere that's very rural in one of the contiguous 48 states. They don't call Alaska "The Last Fronteir" for nothing.

Living there is difficult due to the prices of necessities:
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If your planning to live rural there, the crime rate's high, your neighbors will be very far from you, the winters are extremely brutal, wildlife can be hostile, and you'll be screwed if you hurt yourself and you have no way to contact someone.

I occasionally think about doing this, then realise that I couldn't be able to stand the isolation. I need to talk with people.

[Utage]

As a species humans are really social creatures. Whether conciously or not, we need to express ourselves. You don't need to talk to anyone ever, but the cost of that extreme isolation is that after a few months of no socialization with anything, you'll probably start feeling worse or more bitter. And if you do end up having to talk to someone it'll likely be extremely awkward. We're meant to express ourselves, judge and be judged.

I've heard studies that claim your life span is significantly reduced if you have no contact with other people. But I'll leave the validity of that up to you.

Sure you could argue that we have things like TV and the internet now too, but that's not real interaction.

If you really plan on going through with it get a dog. They're probably the next best thing to a person.

[theUSguy425]

引用自 Type 1 Archibetes：

Thanks everyone for the replies, I'm sorry I haven't been responding as I was AFK for a while. I'm very sure I'm going to pull through with the idea because I know how to survive in rural environments as I am somewhat an outdoorsman. I can hunt, fish, start a fire, make myself a cabin, etc. I know that some people might think that I should just get help for my "social issues" but the point is, I don't want to. I wake up every morning fine as can be until I need to interact with another human, it just kills me, no offense to anyone but they just all seem so stupid and unnecessary for survival. Even if I was offered help, I wouldn't want it. Something inside me just refuses to have any interaction with my own species. Maybe this little rambling explained more, maybe it didn't. I don't want help, I want to be completely alone by myself, where I don't have to do what society says and I can live my life as if it were MY life. Civilization seems worthless to me.

Well, time to give up the PC then. Good luck to you.

[theUSguy425]

引用自 Type 1 Archibetes：

引用自 theUSguy425：

Well, time to give up the PC then. Good luck to you.

I'm completely fine with giving up something as simple as video games, and thank you.

I couldn't do any of it.