This is the world-insanity test
You know that the world is insane and that you’re sane by this test: That you’re doing certain things, and everyone believes that you’re insane, and yet by that very judgement you know that they’re insane but you’re not bothered to explain it to anyone.
In fact, you continue doing what appears to be insane for the simple reason that in the asylum it’s the only sane thing to do.
That’s where you find “the desert”. You suddenly begin to see only the sane ones, where before you saw crowds of who you believed where sane. The crowd becomes transparent and where you before couldn’t see the sane ones, hidden in the crowd, you can suddenly see them, through the others