A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.
If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.