Sounds to me like a mental/emotional crutch/mechanism to distance oneself from the world/reality of the living. There are things that we are meant to strive to

Sounds to me like a mental/emotional crutch/mechanism to distance oneself from the world/reality of the living. There are things that we are meant to strive to understand/accept about ourselves and the world by way of our own cognitive abilities. Illusions of shortcutting through life takes all the meaning out of living.