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 Not sure where to put this so I'll get it off my chest here. Lately I just feel so numb. I think it's the gravity of my own predicaments combined with everything else weighing on me that just make me feel so defeated and uncertain about what is the come. 

Yes I've sorted out how to live by on scraps and continue investing/working towards my personal goals. I have no idea how to re-acquire social wealth though. It's been difficult to make friends let alone approach new people. Yes, I present a cool and level headed personality out in the flow public life, but nothing feels genuine. Nothing feels organic. 

Nothing is felt. 
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 @π”­π”Άπ”―π”žπ”±π”’ it’s a hard question, but you’re not alone. People just have to chip at the problem. 
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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.