Isolation

The recent highschool shooting in Marysville, WA has stimulated a few thoughts.  The foundational worldviews that were prevalent at the founding of this country and the subsequent direction that technology has developed had led us to where we are.  What do I mean by this? 
Protestantism is, by its very nature, individualism.  You find the church that you like and you go there.  If, for any reason, you want to leave and go elsewhere or go nowhere or even start a new church, you are within the bounds of acceptable Protestant behavior.  The founding of our country is based on these same principles.  The Protestants in England, Germany and the Netherlands did not like the way things were going in their countries and churches, so they left and started something new.
This mentality had continued on to this day, but eventually without the religious foundation.  Thus we end up with a bunch of individuals, doing whatever they want.  Ultimately, we end up with isolation.  The problem today is that technology is at the point where someone can create entire worlds/lives in an artificial environment.  Online gaming, online porn, online chat rooms, online dating, etc, ad nauseam. 
When someone isolates themselves from others, and live out their lives with only themselves as a sounding board and sole source of critique, things get really weird.
This is not what we see in Orthodoxy.  Even the monk who spends long periods of time alone in prayer, is never solo. He still goes to Divine Liturgy, at least one a week.  He still sees his confessor/spiritual father, for guidance and he still has some sort of work in which he interacts with other monks.
The everyday Orthodox Christian has all of these plus more.  He had a wife and kids, co workers and neighbors. 
Obviously, I know very little about this young man who killed fellow students and himself in Marysville, but what I have read reveals a few things.  He clearly had no one with whom to talk or sound off ideas.  He sounded like he was struggling but no one knew it.
What do we learn?  Being isolated is never good.  We must interact with, speak to and listen to others.  and even more so, we must live and move and have our being in God.  Daily prayer, confession, repentance and scripture reading must be central to our lives, lest we end up weird and detached.  For God is the ultimate reality.