A Concise Review of Famous Self-Isolators

Here were talking of self-motivated isolators – the hard-arsed, off-the-grid 'stay home' solitude-loving hermit variety - not the reluctant 'isolate or else' category we, the hapless British public demographic, now find ourselves in this state sanctioned 'two meters apart' jackboot lock-down by our Tory Nasty Party government - stretching its totalitarian reach - to see how far the NLP propaganda illusion trick does 'reach' before we get bored with the 'indoors' enforcement and decide enough has been enough - with a 'fuck this bullshit' mass reaction of nation-wide 'civil disobedience' outdoor activities – talking with neighbours, shaking hands, hugging the postie – up to and including street riots (violent where necessary) - and a bog rolls looting spree by those who are sick of wiping their arses on the cat.

First up we have the 4^th Century BC Greek self-isolator, Diogenes. This Stoic philosopher and arch-cynic was the founder of the Athens-based Pessimist Society, who lived in a barrel and scowled at the world.

Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, was a maths prodigy and budding anarchist who lived alone in a cabin with no electricity or water in Montana for 25 years - until he went postal and declared war on the US Mail system and ended up a happy solitary confinement inmate at the ADX Florence prison in Colorado.

Herman and the Hermits - a 1960's pop group who came to fame with their 1962 #1 British charts hit 'Give the Dog a Bone' - which put them clearly in the public eye and attracted unwanted attention - hence all future recordings were conducted from their Salford-based group hideaway – a remote culvert on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal.

Howard Hughes - film producer and director, aviator, and at one point of his bizarre life, the richest men in the world. Howard suffered with ODC and became increasingly reclusive as he grew older, adopting a hermit existence in his Las Vegas hotel penthouse.

Tibetan monk and part-time Panchen Llama – Lobsang Rumpy – lived for fifty-two years in the upper canopy of a mammoth Redwood in Lhasa's Lukhang Park – his sole forms of sustenance being rain water, pine cones and the occasional wayward squirrel – and gained an embarrassing notoriety for shitting on passers-by.

And let's not forget a mention for WickedLeaks boss Julian Assange – who pulled a self-isolation record by holing up inside a broom cupboard in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for seven years – until dragged out kicking n screaming – and very much against his free will - by the Met's Plod Squad thugs.

One significant point viz the hermit / anchorite solitude lifestyle, totally secluded from gossiping, nosy neighbours, is the fact they never catch fuck all in the way of pathogenic corona virus nasties from other infected hominine types.