No.6
isn’t what would be termed as a “social animal.” It was Aristotle, the Greek
philosopher who strongly stated about the social nature of the man being a
social nature a social animal, an individual who is unsocial naturally and not
accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is
something that precedes the individual. I would not say No.6 is anti-social,
but he is certainly an individual who likes to mind his own business.
He doesn’t openly seek the company of others, except when it suits his own purposes, and it generally does suit his own purpose. And yet when isolation is forced upon him by declaring him unmutual, he’s angry at having been made an outcast, no more taxis, the telephone is cut off, and he’s refused custom at the Old People’s Home. He suddenly feels lonely and craves inclusion. No.6 is a loner, yet cannot withstand real loneliness!
He doesn’t openly seek the company of others, except when it suits his own purposes, and it generally does suit his own purpose. And yet when isolation is forced upon him by declaring him unmutual, he’s angry at having been made an outcast, no more taxis, the telephone is cut off, and he’s refused custom at the Old People’s Home. He suddenly feels lonely and craves inclusion. No.6 is a loner, yet cannot withstand real loneliness!
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