theres a reason why banishment was historically a death sentence. It took communities to prosper!

Also, we're living in kind of an unprecedented part of history that enables is to be independent of other people in ways never before possible. So that gives people a very distorted sense of that, a lack of any notion of the importance of community. And of course this "independence" is achieved by a complete dependence on this huge ubiquitous economic machine.

Well no, there's a difference between offgrid and alone and an offgrid commune.