In a harangue against our addiction to technology, Louis René Beres argues in favor of taking a break:
Nothing important, in science or industry or art or music or literature or medicine or philosophy, can ever take place without some loneliness. To be able to exist apart from the mass – to be tolerably separated from what Freud called the “primal horde,” or what Nietzsche termed the “herd,” or Kierkegaard the “crowd” – is actually indispensable to exceptional intellectual development, and determinative creative evolution. … To achieve any sense of true spirituality in life, we must first be willing to endure at least some aloneness.
The Dish 