I think grandparent is talking about wealthy aristocrats who decide they don't want to interact with society/anyone. Pre-pizza-delivery, one would have had to b

I think grandparent is talking about wealthy aristocrats who decide they don't want to interact with society/anyone. Pre-pizza-delivery, one would have had to be incredibly wealthy to manage to pull this off -- or be a penniless hermit, yeah. The reason I replied, however, was the use of the phrase "hermits were aristocratic?", because it brought to mind the fad of the ornamental hermit, kept as a positional good on estates of the rich. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit