Of course. Independence can not be fostered by dependence, either on ourselves or others.
Where I suspect OP is going to struggle is everyone telling them to find what they need inside isn’t going to make sense to them.
If they’ve never felt that external love and validation they’re not going to find it in themselves. We learn and grow up by watching others.
Monkey see, monkey do applies to relationships, including those with ourselves.
Comes with a price.
Speaking generally, as I don’t know you, most isolated people have a desire, drive or yearning for connection.
Its a feature of the species, baring the rare exceptions that prove the rule.
I think if you expect to be able to function without relationships which affirm who you are then you’re in for an uphill battle.
Humans need each other. For so many things including validation, though the word means different things to different people.
Bots don’t really have gender.
Like so many things in this life, blame Byron!
His poem “the Corsair” was written close enough to the peak of piracy that everyone would enjoy it and imagine the characters, but far enough removed from that time that people were able to accept his romanticism, so we’re talking about the early 1800s.
This initial transition only happens in the rich, aristocratic and educated of course, the average person has little knowledge regarding pirates beyond their violent and criminal effects on coastal communities.
this new image of the noble outlaw was not a new archetype, however it was new in being applied to the specific vocation of the pirate. Other rebellious types had been held in high regard at different times in history, all the way back to Set in Egypt or Loki in the north.
From here the pirate moved in the popular understanding slowly but continuously, from a violent ruthless cutthroat to the rebellious free-spirit we see in modern media.