The people who most aggressively accuse others of being delusional, toxic, brainwashed, or irrational are often doing the exact same thing they’re criticizing. They mock others for “believing lies” or “feeding fantasies,” but if you look closer, they’re just reinforcing their own comforting narratives, their own carefully curated “realities.” They just happen to call their version “truth” because it serves them better.

They accuse others of irrational thinking.
This accusation makes them feel more rational, objective, or morally superior.
That feeling reinforces their own blind spots.
Which in turn strengthens the very pattern they’re accusing others of.

It’s just a feedback loop. Only difference is which flavor of “illusion” they’re attached to. The moment you think “I am the one who sees clearly, everyone else is asleep / crazy / deluded,” you are already halfway inside your own hall of mirrors. So it’s not really about who is right and who isn’t but how willing you are to question your own narratives versus how much you need them to stay unquestioned to feel safe, righteous, or superior. The ones who scream the loudest about “other people’s delusions” are not defending “truth.” They are defending their own need for certainty and that is a much harder thing to admit.

Everyone lives in some kind of constructed meaning system. Everyone is wrong, biased, or self-deceptive about something. The real difference is whether you know it and whether you’re willing to evolve when the feedback comes. Otherwise, you’re just trapped in a recursive loop of calling other people lost while getting more and more lost yourself.