RE: https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski/116675502993144413

Not quite similar, but it reminds me of Nietzsche's “curse of awareness"—that when you become aware of common societal/moral illusions, you can no longer go back to blind acceptance. This knowledge makes the people around you uncomfortable and isolates you from others who find the illusory world more comfortable.

Awareness comes at the cost of alienation.

#depressiverealism #amorfati

Positive Illusions and Depressive Realism

And how they are, in fact, similar.