You're just not a PC Globalist---a difficult position to be in the modern world.
I myself choose as much isolation as I can obtain. The power of the political class overwhelms me. I write and use the net to reach out. I live in the middle of deep forest in center of nowhere on the edge of the Ohio River Valley. Four big dogs, a few guns for hunting, etc., and self-sufficiency equals peace and quiet.
We were sold out by the President and the so-called conservatives of the GOP Congress in '06. There's a lesson to found in there, somewhere.