Where is the Climbing Love?

The following Article is featured in Alpinist Magazine. I enjoyed the first paragraph which is copied here. For the rest of the article, go here but it gets pretty whiny in subsequent paragraphs. It is an interesting addition to QD's FAQ "Are climbers unfriendly"? I say, Heck, NO! Climbers are incredibly friendly because as the article says "A climber needs to socialize with someone that understands his madness"

Where is the Climbing Love? by Stanley Livingstone
I've always considered one of the finest aspects of climbing to be meeting diverse people and sharing a common bond—a common disposition. This is not to say that all climbers think alike. In fact, climbers are mostly independent thinkers and usually avoid "group mentality" because this lifestyle attracts the autonomous, or at least forces autonomy on you. Yet many of us are gregarious, not in the traditional "flock" sense, but in our willingness to socialize with, and aid, the fellow climber. Climbing is full of great contradictions—the brute savagery and delicate finesse required for ice climbing, for example. This is certainly one of them. Even though he might be roped together with another person, the climber meticulously placing RP's up the headwall of El Cap is alone, confined to the walls of his skull. But something dormant inside him is lurking, waiting to compel him later when he is done with his objective. He seeks community. He desperately needs to socialize with someone who can understand him and relate to his madness.