The illusion

 

People dancing in a club

Case 1: Most Indians do not have discretionary income to spend, and as they don't want to face the inferiority complex, they have created an illusion that whatever they’re doing is best. They glamourise the poor substitute. The Indian street food, or the food served in roadside small shops, is pathetic. The hygiene, quality and taste are horrible. Ingredients like oil, tomato, and onion are of very low grade. However, most Indians praise street food because they can't afford good hotel food. Street food lovers will justify why star-rated hotels aren't worth the money and why street food is better.

Maruti owners will justify to you why Mercedes isn't worth the money. 

H&M users will justify why Zara isn't worth the money. 

Someone who was liking a person suddenly starts to find faults in the very same person after a breakup or a rejection. Whatever happens, it happens for a good reason, a common phrase used after something bad happens and not after something good happens. A consoling illusion. 

Humans tend to resent the things they can't have and find happiness by creating an illusion, in a substandard substitute. If they accept the reality that it’s their incompetence, unaffordability, which is not allowing them to get those things, they will go into depression. They will have to believe the illusion or they will go mad.    

Case 2: Most of the lower-middle-class and lower-class families in Mumbai live in a single 12*15 room. They have created a kitchen in one corner and placed a bed in the other corner. They travel around 3 hours(up and down) in local trains in very unsafe conditions to their jobs. They aren't paid fairly. But in the end, they console themselves by calling this pitiful struggle 'Mumbai's spirit'. They call 'Amchi Mumbai" to the city which was never theirs and which hasn't given them their share. How can someone be so proud of their miserable life? They distract themselves from confronting the reality of their miserable lives by going to Juhu beach and watching a Porsche in the BKC area. They have created this illusion — Sapno ki Mayanagari( City of Dreams). And they will have to believe this illusion, or they will go mad. 

Case 3: There are so many youths in India who are not getting jobs or are poorly paid. And they don't even have hope that they will ever get a good job. Sometimes they gamble and incur losses. They have debts. Their own houses are shattered, but they have to make a new India, a Hindu Rashtra, by cracking down on Muslims. The media, the political parties have created an illusion that their religion is in danger, so that the people shouldn't ask for a job, better education, or healthcare. And people are believing this illusion; if they don't, they will go mad because their lives are miserable.

Case 4: If you hate Mondays, you don't love your job.

 When you wander in malls and pubs, you will see hollow people. They don't love their jobs, so they don't even want the idea of the job in their mind when they are free, like Apple's 'Severance' series. They just don't want to remember anything from their jobs, because the job is terrible for them. So they wait for weekends. It's not that I support Murthy's 70-hour work per week culture. But there's no point if you are doing 48-hour work per week jobs under compulsion. 

To get severed from the reality they have created the illusion, partying on weekends, obsessive buying, frequent vacations, and posting all this on social media to show how their lives are amazing. And they have to believe this illusion or they’ll go mad.