Rousseau's Desire for Isolation

Rousseau had this image of people as being very solitary creatures who kind of wander around peacefully and only occasionally meet for sexual congress. Do you think, to some extent, this is a reflection of Rousseau's own desire to be alone? Well, that's a very interesting thought. In order to address that, let me say that what Rousseau then thought was that it wasn't that the scrabbling for acorn stage was actually a stage that we should in itself idolize. He does see that many of our best human capacities also develop through at least some stage of civilization.