> Human relationships simply don’t work, at any scale, from the most intimate to the most abstract. The nuclear family is a repressive disaster, but monogamy and polygamy each have thousands of tiny, fast anxieties scurrying under their surfaces. Socialism and capitalism each unleashed unprecedented horrors racing across the world’s surface. We don’t know how to deal with one another; all we can ever do is fail in different ways.

I'm not going to try and pick this apart or disagree with it.

I do find it deeply fascinating that there is such a pronounced divide (or spectrum) between people who prefer solitude and those who prefer companionship. When we here of someone old dying alone our first thought can be "Oh, that's so sad," but we might learn that the person was alone entirely by choice.

It takes all kinds. Or, I guess, 十人十色.