Rough Draft

Can isolation from society be a good thing? The only acceptable conclusion to such an ambiguous musing is one confined to a single interpretation. Thus, in an effort to ensure a common apprehension and consequently eradicate the infinitely many (and equally justifiable) perceptions and corresponding conclusions that would inevitably arise and conflict, the following denotation will serve as the foundation for the remainder of this essay: isolation, observed in a strictly sociological light, is the state or process in which a person loses or does not have communication with society, in this case any organized group of persons associated together for religious, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes. Margin …show more content…
In order to really appreciate such a principle, one must understand that recent technological advancements, despite numerous advantages, have immensely enlarged our notion of society and in doing so are slowly reducing varying cultures and philosophies to a sort of equilibrium, where it seems that at some near future point, all human inhabitants of the world will share the same, or at least very similar, ways of interpreting each other and their perceptibly shared existence. Now, one could argue that such an occurrence would be useful in arriving at a more discernable commonality of human experience, but under closer scrutiny this just seems to be another short-cut to true thinking, or rather a ploy to excuse our persisting inability to tolerate, or even better, welcome viewpoints differing from one’s own. As is well known from the evolutionary theory, diversity in a species is absolutely necessary to its survival. Applying such a concept to our own human race and reconnecting to this philosophical equilibrium theory, if, to use an extreme example, an enormous dilemma was to manifest in our future unitary society, we’d collectively see from only one perspective, possess only one background from which to draw useful experience, and therefore be severely limited to whatever those limited and universal coping mechanisms hypothetically were. In such a case, the previously long-unforeseen threat of human extinction could suddenly became a very real and imposing possibility. However, if a large number of humans were to isolate themselves, receding from society’s sphere of thought and behavioral influence, diversity among problem solving methods, as a result of developing self-specific solutions, would persist and collectively provide numerous