Party of One: the Loners Manifesto - Anneli Rufus

Have you ever noticed when some crazy nut goes on a killing spree and all the newspapers and TV stations go ask their neighbours and family for interviews they always, always describe them as “…a quiet loner who kept himself to himself.” I even saw an interview where they described the murder as “a quiet loner with a family and three kids.”!!! So going by that logic mad gunmen are loners, does that make all loners potential killers? Obviously not but on a more sub-conscious level loners are given a very raw deal. I see myself as a ‘part time loner’ (didn’t Stevie Wonder write a song with that ... more