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RE: How To Effectively Alienate Yourself From The World
If both your reasoning and instincts tell you that you've stopped being a social animal, then only constant annoyance, hermitry, or suicide are left as options.
I'm not so sure acting upon intellectual honesty is a must, because when it goes against the grain of your social instincts, there is a possibility that the assumptions at the basis of your reasoning are flawed. You just may be intellectually honest and wrong at the same time, because you are not using all the inputs at your disposal. Thus the end point of your reasoning becomes a rather feeble basis for shooting yourself, to say the least.
Yes I have considered this. We are not talking about deep topics as we discuss here but fundamental aspects of human existence. Like at the core of societal rules, applications, compromises, white lies all that. I just cant do it.
Isn't that easily remedied by keeping the right company so you don't have to forcibly fit in? You're retired, so there can't be all that many people you need to be nice to and comply with if you don't want to, or societal rules you must still follow. Among friends you don't have to, although it is nice to be nice, of course, to add some vagueness.