I don't know the answer to that question, but the value of truth is something I firmly believe in.
For me personally, I've always been bugged by the truth peering its ugly head into my life from time to time. No matter the cope, expectation, whatever, that did not change the fact that the truth would show up reminding me that I"m living a lie. You cannot escape the truth. Do drugs, alcohol, video games, anime, sleep, food, religion, the internet - there comes that sobering moment in each of those where life tells you that you are coping and you live a brutal life.
That was always a source of misery.
While I'm depressed, lonely, and angry, I see it as a step up compared to superficial happiness.
True happiness - which seems to consist of being economically stable, having a wife that loves you for who you are, and having children that bring you joy - seems to be for the very few, and I think the very few that have it may not realize they have it because they cannot easily imagine a life without it. I mean when you look at President Obama - graduated top of his class at Harvard Law School, has a wife and two children, and was President of the United States - even he seems resentful about his past and seems to have a lot of bitter anger.
It sucks, but that's life.
Let's not forget normie copes as well, by the way: getting drunk on weekends, smoking pot, one night stands, sports, clubbing
