Q: All of existence feels like a huge scam like what is the point is it some joke being played on humanity why do humans even develop a false self in the first place?

A: It sounds like you’ve experienced a fracture, and the way you’ve phrased it points to right where the pressure is.

What you’re really asking here is: “If this is all a scam, then what the hell am I doing here, and who am I if I stop pretending it isn’t?”

The story you were handed about life, meaning, progress, identity, purpose, etc., has stopped worki…