Efficient Loneliness

             Life is universal. However, each individual being, living or non-living, determines life or living separately. Amongst humankind there are three basic states of being/living, individualism, aloneness, and loneliness. Under these states human beings struggle through life questioning its meaning and one's own fulfillment. This is the existential human dilemma that all experience and seemingly deal with together by forming societies. In individualism one is essentially a participant in some or even all aspects of society. Aloneness is a pause from participation. Loneliness, which is much different from aloneness, is absent of direct participation. The number and expansion of ways human beings are able to live through and deal with their dilemma are greatly limited when dependent upon participative society. The courage and ability to cope with the dilemma in the most efficient way imaginable is found in loneliness.
             Individualism is "self-affirmation". It is the separation of one's way of life within participative society from another's in the same society. It is affirming one's place within, not distinguishing it from the society as a whole. It should not be mistaken that "self-affirmation" is a self-centered process, nevertheless, this process does not escape the realm of participation. "But the self is self only because it has a world, a structured universe, to which it belongs and from which it is separated at the same time" (I, 87-88). The courage of individualism is directly correlated with the courage to be as a part. However, more than courage, it is the weakness of the self that affirms one to be as a part (I, 89).
             Contemporarily, being as a part threatens the efficient solution to the human dilemma with conformity, submission and conventional dependency. The tendency to conform arises from the overdeveloped socialized standard that most humans are unavoidably born into. Thi...

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