Generalized friendship is a substitute for the high order life long bond that is more than the conditioned version we have come to accept in the absence of the authentic.

I have been an intentional recluse for over a decade because the calibre of human interactions dropped lower than my tolerance and my ability to override the inclination to remove them from the gene pool.

I live in Seattle. It is tough to have friends here because if you say something conservative or not libby enough, people react by un-personing you. If their wife find out you are conservative, they will forbid their husband from interaction.