The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
- Marya Mannes
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A few weeks ago I was given a vintage camera that turned out to have a film hidden inside.
There's something about the prefix "anti" that provokes all too many people, even some who consider themselves "skeptics," to clutch at their pearls and feel faint. Antivaccine? Oh, no, you can't say that! They're not "antivaccine"? Who could be so nutty as to be "antivaccine"?
Over my nearly six years of blogging, I've become known as a staunch advocate of science- and evidence-based medicine, both in the guise going under my long-used pseudonym "Orac" and under my real name.
"Anti-vaccine."
Huh? Solitude incinerates (destroys) spirit?
Solitude is increaing difficult to find; cretaceous badlands work sometimes and they mostly look alike in the Big Bend, or 4-Corners or South Dakota. But with a legal population of over 300,000,000 now and likely 320,000,000 counting all those uncounted, we are looking at a doubling time of less than 45 years, possibly 30 years. That means that solitude will be an even more difficult experience with 600,000,000 people or more by 2040 or so.