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In reply to the discussion: Americans are the loneliest, most isolated people [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)their accomplishments, or need to keep people away...
Focus is the Art of saying No
Then sure. But if they are alone because their government spews fear of others at them 24x7, if they are alone because a school system that treated them like shit 8, or 10, or 12 years taught them that people suck and that it was less painful to withdraw from them, or taught them, wrongly, that "individualism" is how this country was built despite all the laborers and soldiers and families that have sacrificed together to get us here and so they try to go it alone thinking that it is the path to success.
That is a sickness, a pathology that ranges from mild to seriously ill, people who are alone but either shouldn't or don't need to be. The OP sees that here more than other places.