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 I don't think I can't approach regular people past surface interactions either. Everything is fake or inverted in the western world, so in a a way it makes sense that we feel like this. The "best" analogy that I can come up is we are in some kind of "cultural clash" situation but on steroids.
Like sometimes I hear people talking political issues or problems they have in the street or on TV and they are so way off what's the underlaying issue, what's the real problem... sigh. The way we had to un-learn/re-learn a lot of stuff when we became redpilled, just to try to make people understand the same would be required... and the fake/inversion isn't only political stuff it affects nearly everything. Like I hate that sometimes I tend to speak using sarcasm (because I did most of my life) instead of being plain and direct when it's about serious subjects.