This expression has been used by quite a few in many ways.

Perhaps the phrase that  “no man is an island,” because of its implied poetic wisdom, attracts us as to its possible truth. In recent days and weeks, we have seen a number of public figures who are islands to themselves as well as to the rest of us.

A number of now-former governors and current politicians running for high and even local office have proved that they exist in self-made shells, on types of islands which separate them from their own knowledge of themselves and shield them from their weaknesses that they publicly display as strength.

We of course, now know that many “men are islands to themselves and to those around them.” Our main wonder is how and why they become islands. Perhaps because of the great social sea that tends to separate most of us.

Society tends especially to make islands of many of the elderly who eventually find that they have been eroded from the main continent. There are many others who already are islands, as we have seen and there are many more islands in the making.

Perhaps we hesitate to face the truth, that islands are forming among us and each of us does not see the danger of becoming  an island.