That would no doubt be accurate. It occurs to me to comment, though, that in the same sense that I have been made relatively fearless by the fact that I am afraid of everything and everyone, I am also not afraid of being shamed by others, since I already feel it anyway.
Here is an hypothesis: a great many creative sorts–and definitely comedians–derive much of their creative potential FROM shame, and from a following need to justify it with, if not transgression, at least the NEW.
I think most of us are born conformists. The people who stand out are those driven in some way. They may be driven by love–a love of beauty, of form, of the creative process itself. And they may be driven by what I call the Unholy Triumvirate of Shame, Fear, and Anger.
You can’t really much fear losing connections you never really had, although I think there is another direction, that of hyperconformity, in which the connections are tepid, weak, and highly contingent. Those are the people who go through the meat grinder and come out Fascists. There are a lot of those people right now.
Think about this, too: would you not expect a groundswell of support for mass marches and demonstrations, when people have been locked up alone for months? They get to belong. They get to participate, allegedly in the service of a noble cause.