I am smelling and seeing more isolated people. I see them on streets and in offices and in stores. Their scent is distinct, the sour smell of isolation and apathy.
Dogs are good with solitude. Wolves are even better. But both can die from loneliness. Both need a pack to survive. People need a pack or family or tribe.
Most people have lost the ability to be alone, in solitude. But many people are dreadfully and desperately alone. There is a difference between solitude and loneliness.
Solitude, for a person, means being away from people. Loneliness means being disconnected from people. One can be lonely in a crowd. For solitude one must be away from people.
Every pack has side-projects, such as trying to bring a rogue or lone weredog back into the fold, into their pack. My pack currently has 2 it is trying to bring back in. 1 is a weredog who I have known several times in my centuries, but who I have never really known at all.
Loneliness is different from solitude. Extended loneliness wounds and carves the soul. Solitude nourishes the soul. One can be in solitude and not be lonely. And one can be lonely within a crowd or large city.
Loneliness goes against the survival instinct. 50,000 years ago being alone meant death. In today’s over-populated world solitude seems to be the opposite, people fear it, but they need it on a subconscious level. This a main reason why people fish, hunt, climb, do things that get them out of cities and into the woods, deserts and mountains, places that remind their primal selves that they can survive outside cities, that cities are relatively new and modern constructs.
Neos are the exception. We are finding that they are incapable of loneliness, that they crave isolation, that they are repelled by connection with others, even of their own kind, other neos. This is a weakness we can exploit.
3 comments:
I agree with your rant about the differences between lonliness and solitude. I actually crave solitude to a certain point(not like the neos you describe), and as a consequence I've sometimes experienced lonliness. It's the most horrible feeling in existence, to actually feel that you're alone.
I haven't been following you blog for some time due to life, but these "neos" sound like they brainwash themselves into supposedly not being able to feel lonliness. Just based off of that, they sound like a cult. Based on the last few posts by you, it also sounds like they are the ones trying to "eradicate humanity". They sound no better than extremists, honestly. I'm an empathetic person, and try to understand others, and to some point I can see why they'd want that. . . but it's still stupid. Humans have their place in the world. We've forgotten a good deal of it, yes, but I believe we'll find it again. For all the bad we've done, we're now tryng to set things right, like the reintroduction of wolves and land conservation efforts.
But, I guess war has always been a feature of sentience. Maybe to truly set things straight we need a war.
The neo drive to wipe out humanity is more genetic, it is assumed. Theories are that causes are over-population, over-stimulation and over-abundance, the rewards of modernity. They are a new species, or subspecies, not a cult.
If more people spent some time alone, in silence, the rewards of that would be enormous.
Genetic? Wow. That would be terrifying, to look a neo in the eye and know they have a genetic drive to kill you. Scarier than any person simply in rage. Maybe they see us as competition?
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