While there is *obvious value in being self directed and having personal goals, for anyone who has ever struggled in this current system knows that essentially in order to get out if any struggle, we must rely on others. In other words - to be our best selves we must depend on others.

Literally all of science and anthropology has proven that we are a communal species - at no point in human history have we *ever been some lone wolf organism.

Sure there are examples of ascetecism:

Men often historically require an inititiattion into manhood, to seperate from the "mother" archetype into men. which likely explains why our patriarchal dominant society favours capitalism and individualist libertarianism (in contrast to anarchist DIY ethos of self empowerment to better the community)

Figures like Buddha or Throroux isolating themselves to find a personal truth - but even in the classic Zen Buddhist "Ox Herding Pictures", eventually we must all return to "the market" aka, the Commons.

Keep in mind in both these examples this type ofn