…those thoughts you would readily project onto someone else…the diagnosis you would levy on the other that most certainly has applications in your own life.  Study this…and reflect on the correlations…

He is correct…I don’t need the validation…but his path is flawed…beyond individuality and distinction…his ideas trend dangerously close to the path of the guru that engages devotees without valid approach.

He has come to loath validation, but gaining approval for false personality identifications is vastly different from validating ideas and methods.

Again, the path forward needs to be traversed in solitude.