Strange Tale of the North Pond hermit

[The Daryl]

This was an interesting read, I thought. Figured others might enjoy his conclusion about isolation:

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201409/the-last-true-hermit?currentPage=1

[GypsyMan]

Hey dude, Thanks for the great story. I really liked it!

[The Daryl]

Glad you enjoyed it!

There are all kinds of things going on with it, that you could debate the criminality, the idea that this is a guy that divorces the system, then gets shotgun wedding'ed back into it (and maybe forever lost in it). But the thing that floors me is this:

"I did examine myself," he said. "Solitude did increase my perception. But here's the tricky thing?when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. With no audience, no one to perform for, I was just there. There was no need to define myself; I became irrelevant. The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand. I didn't even have a name. I never felt lonely. To put it romantically: I was completely free."


And of course that timeless nugget of wisdom : Get enough sleep! 

[GypsyMan]

Well on the criminality of his actions, If you reject society you are no longer bound by the social contract.
He rejected the structure of a community, and it's rules. Of course that theory only works until your caught and forcibly returned to society and
the social contract; The rules. There was another hermit on the west coast that was recently caught a few years ago and he was doing basically the same thing.