You can lose a friend to alcohol or drugs, to a religious cult, or to a crazy idea. You can lose a friend to the anti-vax movement or the Qanon. You can lose a friend to career-building, to depression or schizophrenia, to marriage, or to simple misunderstandings. You can also lose yourself.
Eventually, you will lose both yourself and all your friends to death.
Some people pretend that they are Christian because they know it is an excellent disguise. Trump, for example, secured plenty of votes in this way.
Others pretend that they have psychic abilities. As psychics, they can attract followers on Youtube and then build a profitable business.
Some people pretend that they have reached a high level of spiritual insight, that they are awakened beings. This can also be financially rewarding.
Others pretend that they care about future generations and say that we have to do something to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases. In this way, they can come across as very likable and considerate.
However, some people really are genuinely religious, some really do care about future generations and some people really have reached higher levels of spiritual insight. The problem is that you can never determine who is a bluffer and who is truthful and honest. You can never know if the Bitcoins he is selling are real or if his spirituality is a cover. (Well, eventually the truth will come out.)
So, what to do about this? It's simple. Don't trust anybody. It doesn't matter if they appear in mainstream media or social media. Watch out for tricksters and hucksters, high-browed and low-browed.
You know that people also cheat themselves. Therefore, don't even trust yourself.
There are many different kinds of diets. There are religious-based diets. Hindu diets, Muslim diets, and Jews have their kosher diet.
And then there are all the modern diet gurus. All of them are at odds with each other, accusing each other of quackery.
The environmentalists refuse to eat meat because producing it causes too much CO2 emissions while Joe Average sticks to his hamburgers and pizzas.
If you don't follow my diet plan you are an idiot. My guru is the best. He is the way and the truth and the life.
So, you have to stick to your group of people who have the same food preferences, you have to stick to your tribe or your team. Muslims hang out with other Muslims and Hindus hang out with other Hindus. Vegetarians prefer to hang out with vegetarians and keto people prefer to hang out with other keto people. About 690 million people are at this moment hungry and malnourished.
