I’d argue, as long as your definition of happiness revolves around emotions assosciated with dopamine, a person can in fact be happy in your hypothetical. Either in the case where social frameworks are built up and intentionally discarded, or in the case where they are never present, the subject is still able to derive pleasure from the selfish and individualistic. I know I have gone lonv periods of time without thinkinv of any other person and been happy all the while.
I’d argue, as long as your definition of happiness revolves around emotions assosciated with dopamine, a person can in fact be happy in your hypothetical. Either in the case where social frameworks are built up and intentionally discarded, or in the case where they are never present, the subject is still able to derive pleasure from the selfish and individualistic. I know I have gone lonv periods of time without thinkinv of any other person and been happy all the while.