I've written that you should remain a stranger to avoid becoming entangled in the mistakes or biases of your own society, to instead be your own man or woman. The problem with this is that it is that a stranger can never know another person, never truly understand them for to know someone you must become them.
Giving up yourself to your surroundings, what most do, is the path of the cog. Intellectual detachment, the path of the stranger, is another. The third path is being not one person but many people. It is becoming both sides in a war, even if you fight on only one. It is stepping into the shoes of those who are weaker or stronger, wiser or more ignorant than you. It is being those you hate, and in doing so abandoning hate for you cannot hate yourself. It is not a path without it's dangers for when you wear a mask, you become what you pretend to be. It is not an easy path, for it requires strength of will enough to let go of yourself and strength of character enough to find yourself again. Still, it is a path worth following.
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