Alienation

In general, social alienation is a very useful state of being, since it creates the space to be a writer. Those who are too comfortably ensconced in the social wrapping of a community do not acquire the sense that reality is still undecided. Rather, for them, it is fixed by the necessities of social mores and social reciprocation. Reality becomes, thus, already determined, absorbing their time, their thoughts and aspirations for the future. Social obligation creates a sense of belonging, but it also fills in the gaps in time, in the imagination, and in terms of the direction that the future will take, which social alienation does not.

We should all wish to be more socially alienated. It's only write.