In response to this post, to begin with I’m not sure where you’d go to really be alone. I mean, everywhere you go today, even to your bedroom at night, is some construct of society. Maybe if you could go out in the woods or to a desert island and really be alone, then I am sure you would start to put your life together in a different way than it is now structured. Some people have tried this already. I guess Thoreau is one of the most famous. If you could go away and be alone, however, you might find that you want society, or you need society. Being alone may not be all that it is cracked up to be, unless you have some kind of meaningful work to do, some purpose. Or maybe you just want to get up in the morning, go through your day, eat and avoid getting eaten, like early man. That is, maybe you just want to live, without any pressure to produce anything of value. But value exists everywhere, even alone. When you are alone you value different things than you do in society. In society I value my Cable. Alone I would value a swallow of water. I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but I do think that the older you get the easier it is to focus on the things that are really important.

Never fool yourself into thinking you’re part of a plot to destroy the “matrix.” The world ‘outside’ would look just like that on the inside; there would be a fixed agenda, a given society, means of control. That is why radical political movements serve only to cause a violent shift to an end of, never a break from, the defining spectrum. Your advantage is your position inside the construct. Awareness is everything; at the very least, it prevents loss of control. You’ve come this far, so answer your own question. Don’t wait for that phone to ring.