The trick is to casually go,
and casually return…
(again and again until the end).
The ignorant die from the stress of the unavoidable repeated journey.
The coming and going may be inescapable, the stress is not.
It would be better that fish stayed in water rather than trying to don breathing tanks, or spitting on one another to stay moist and alive. Shared delusions keep your neighbors alive. The ones you allow in your house keep your own non-residents viable.
Even kidding around with idiots, (much less trying to, straighten-them-out), puts you on their team. Useless ideas are kept alive through repeated attention, whether it is positive or negative doesn’t matter: all that is required is just attention. After all, a man cannot possibly stay blind to what life is really about unless he willfully keeps his own eyes closed.
Once things are seen in focus, you realize that the problem is not really one of discovering-The-Truth, but in being able to keep yourself oblivious to it. (In other, annoying words): waking up is not the challenge – staying asleep is.
(Take that under the covers with you tonight!)
J.