Well... I don't know if I really have anything to offer with regard to this. But I personally feel much the way you do. The thing is... I'm an old man now. And I'm pretty-much thoroughly reclusive... by choice. I don't have any friends or even acquaintances really. I don't even read the newspaper or watch the news on TV for the most part. There's nothing I can do about any of it. So I just don't want to hear it. But, at the same time, I'm here on PC... a lot... I guess even I crave some kind of connection, although even here on PC I pretty-much just do my thing & keep to myself.

The thing is though I can be reclusive because the kindly U.S. government sends me a nice Social Security check every month. So I don't have to work to support myself. If one does have to work to support oneself, it's infinitely more difficult to simply divorce oneself from the world. I know a lot of people think one has to be involved... to be out there doing this-&-that, blah, blah, blah. I don't. I try not to tie up any more resources than I need to in order to live. (This wasn't my idea to begin with that I know of.) And I stay out of other peoples' way. As far as I'm concerned that's enough.

So, anyway, I don't know as I can tell you how to divorce yourself from all of the things society tells you you ought to be doing. But I certainly understand the desire. And I wish you well...