At some point in our headlong rush towards ‘progress’, we cut ourselves off from the communal crucible of close human connection that nurtured our species for hundreds of thousands of years. Since we first settled into agricultural civilisation we’ve engineered a series of socio-economic systems that have incentivised us to consistently exploit one

And then there is the alone that I’m now experiencing, standing in the Arctic tundra with no human around me. I am surely the only person in this 6 square miles—or 12 or even 18. I’ve never experienced alone like this.