We've known for years now that technology has the potential to isolate, and that isolation breeds all those nasty inner demons that are generally checked by adequate and healthy socialization in childhood and adolescence.
For Ms. Rijker, isolation breeds self-knowledge.
As Hubert H. Humphrey, the former vice president, said, "National isolation breeds national neuroses".
Isolation breeds naivety: Island living robs Australian varanid lizards of toad-toxin immunity via four-base-pair mutation, Evolution 67(1):289–294 | doi 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01751.x ...................... GrrlScientist is very active on twitter @GrrlScientist.
From British Sea Power's Man of Aran to Fair Isle singer Lise Sinclair, who has just come back from touring a new album inspired by Orkney poet George Mackay Brown, it seems that isolation breeds imagination.
And the work compares very well – albeit on the more modest scale typical of most Australian art – but where radical isolation breeds exotic local variations, Australian pop was far looser, funnier and more satirical than its uptight international brethren.
Isolation bred homogeneity.
His early isolation bred in him both a vivid internal life and a seething resentment that would inform his acting persona and approach.
But long-term, isolation breeds hopelessness, leading to a downward spiral that makes it hard to take action, to find housing, work, and reconnect.
As I can attest after recently filming a follow-up to my documentary on the Ku Klux Klan and Crips' aborted showdown in Memphis, which examines how the KKK and other hate groups in the region are actively recruiting veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, isolation breeds anger and self-imposed isolation breeds the type of anger that can only be tempered by killing, maiming, and destruction.
