solitude, loneliness, and isolation are very different things. Isolation is physical separation, Solitude is conscious and voluntary self-reflection, and loneliness is the feeling of isolation. The last two can happen even if you have plenty of people around.

Loneliness despite company, especially in urban environments, has been one of the most popular topics in art & culture for like a hundred years for a reason.

Your snide insults justify misanthropy. It is easy then to decide that being away from people who think and behave as you did, for example by pursuing solitude, may help prevent developing a misanthropic attitude. Even a strange person with a family and friends and a populated city environment can recognize that we need to get away from your way of being.

Yeah, he needs atleast 12 years living on a farm doing subsistence farming while not seeing another human being, and then I will listen.

Funny. He's also a freelance writer. As such he can write about solitude - if he gets an article or two or even a book out his chit chat, perhaps become the guru of 'solitude' on talk shows..

I mean what's the difference between the real thing and a simulation of the real? Probs the simulation is better, especially if it pays the bills! Right?