Truly being alone

[bigpaul]

I am fairly certain that most people cannot and will not cope alone, we hear so many times "no man is an island" and I myself have noticed how people seem to have a herding instinct, you hear a particular noise and say to some one "whats that noise" and you get the reply "what noise" people are just so used to background noise they just don't notice it any more, so when something happens to remove all traffic, aeroplane and industrial noise I think they will just freak. remove other people from the equation and I think most people will go crazy. by most people I mean the general public. personally I prefer peace and quiet to other peoples noise but that's just me. even if you go off camping somewhere-even on your own- you'll probably find there are other people around, there are so many people these days its difficult getting away from them, that will change of course after an event when the population is reduced.