intertext

Yes, that's true. And under the guilt we feel at turning away from one fellow human, perhaps we feel a great unease about the whole system. That's very threatening for people who are doing their best to get ahead in that system. So perhaps the fantasy that the world at the margins is one of excitement and deeper insight is actually an expression of desire: the desire to explore whether, in fact, we've got it all wrong, the desire to drop out and seek something that might lead to a kind of happiness/truth we have dreamed of but not yet achieved.