I’ve been thinking about isolation not as a single condition, but as something that layers.

Physical, social, digital, financial, ideological—each form can reinforce the others until it becomes less about distance and more about structure.

I wrote about this idea of “stacked isolation,” and how those layers build and harden over time.

https://open.substack.com/pub/lawrencenault/p/the-architecture-of-isolation

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The Architecture of Isolation

A reflection on layered isolation, accumulated constraint, and the shape of withdrawal

Lawrence Nault