Newton, for example, "revolutionized" physics and the so-called natural sciences by reducing the physical universe to a linear mathematical equation. Descartes did the same thing with culture. John Locke did it with politics, and Adam Smith did it with economics. Each one of these "thinkers" took a piece of the sacredity of human existence and converted it into code, an abstraction.

Definitions are only helpful in communication. Solitude has no logic.

Imagine existing without the ideas of a haunting shadow or that rain was meant to be avoided. Think of living as we believe other animals do. If we were never taught to fear such things, how would life be different?

What made us value our individual ideas as less than those outside us? Did we gradually dilute ourselves by a misunderstanding of commercialism, evolve from learned fear, or choose through pure free will?

A state removed from self- and social-experience is the natural state of being. Joy exists within that vacuum. How did we forget this.

Human life seems built on a broken egotistical model with assumptions to which we should not subscribe. But if I believe this, how can I live on my own beliefs when so few recognize the unspoken framework, and will I always be an outsider?

I only want to be among others so detached as my self. If I could live in the woods far from the rest, I would. I am not the social animal I learned about, so what was the point of the education.