Learn everything you can about the madness of crowds, understand group-speak. Social life is a performance where people engage in empty conversations and meaningless pursuits driven by needs for validation and a fear of loneliness. Empty people can't see themselves as empty. People with distorted uncritical thinking are unaware of their own intellectual limitations. Superficial reality distorted by emotions shapes their desires and understanding of the world.
Only by withdrawing from society can one engage in the deep introspection necessary to perceive the world's underlying truth.
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