As reported by The Federalist's Elle Purnell, there's a movement arising of individuals all over the country who are choosing to forego gathering with loved ones around the Holiday season and choosing, instead, to focus on themselves by giving them a self-care day: 

Citing the annoyance of travel, the pressure of gifting, and the overall “stress” of interacting with other imperfect human beings, they chose instead to spoil themselves. One is taking herself on a trip to New York City. Another will buy herself flowers and do a puzzle. A 37-year-old man chose to spend last Christmas watching movies and taking himself out for “a fancy four-course dinner.”

Look, not everyone is able to spend Christmas with family, and if that’s you, I hope you can spend the day loving on and being loved by whatever people you do have around you. But that’s not the case here, as Page’s headline makes clear. These people all have families who gather for the holidays and would welcome their presence. Liz Ivy, 30, told the Post she conveyed to her family at Thanksgiving that she’d be spending Christmas solo, and “it almost ruined Thanksgiving.”

To make herself feel better, Ivy “decided to share her Christmas plans on TikTok to lessen the stigma around spending the holidays solo and inspire others who were contemplating doing the same thing.”

To be clear, there was no explicit socio-political reason given. It was just the stress of doing things that focus on arranging, scheduling, and being with others. The thing is, modernity and all the ideals and trends that come with it are primarily leftist, as modernity is driven by corporate tastemakers and slacktivists. 

And if there's one thing leftism promotes, it's isolation. 

Ideological isolation is one of leftism's biggest demands. You cannot think thoughts outside the body politic, you can't ask questions that would challenge approved ideals, and if anyone breaks from the approved boundaries they must be ejected. You must close off your mind to anything outside the boundaries. 

This is a large part of what got the left into trouble in the last election. It became so ideologically isolated that it lost touch with the American people. 

But the other thing it promotes is to do what "feels good," and this, in my opinion, a recipe for absolute self-destruction. The "do what feels good" approach to life has contributed to an inordinate amount of people obsessed with their mental health, as anything that doesn't feel good becomes a stressor, and stress is a sin in the modern world. Stress-reduction is a billion-dollar industry, and I'm not just talking about the pharmaceuticals that promise to reduce it. Therapies of all varieties have sprung up, all of which promise to reduce your stress. 

All of this has created a culture of "me," and people are willing to abandon loved ones and go into isolation in the false hope that it will relieve their stress and improve their "mental health." 

If you peel it all back, you'll see the self-care industry is just that — an industry. Corporations love for you to spend time and money buying things to help you focus on yourself. As I said, it's a billion-dollar industry, but ultimately, this is harmful to the mind and soul. Isolation is not healthy. We are pack animals, and even lone wolves eventually join packs, or they die lonely, often painful deaths. 

This kind of isolating can actually have damaging effects in the long-term. Cutting off the love and support typically given by loved ones causes stress and anxiety in itself. Feelings of loneliness intensify, and that leads to their own stresses. 

Moreover, as the isolation continues, the body even starts to suffer start as reported by ScienceAlert.com: 

Loneliness can be damaging to both our mental and physical health. Socially isolated people are less able to deal with stressful situations.

They're also more likely to feel depressed and may have problems processing information. This in turn can lead to difficulties with decision-making and memory storage and recall.

People who are lonely are also more susceptible to illness. Researchers found that a lonely person's immune system responds differently to fighting viruses, making them more likely to develop an illness.

Selfishness is literally unhealthy, both mentally and physically. 

Family matters, friends are a lifeline, and isolation due to it being a kind of stressful to travel or deal with relatives is not doing yourself any favors. This especially goes for the holidays, where you're going to watch other people gather and have moments without you. Even if you think you dodged a stressful bullet, you didn't. You just took one where the wound manifest's quietly. 

The left's mainstream creation of "me culture" has to die.