The cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation.
“The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation. I grapple with this because I’m a parent. And I think anybody who has children, you come to this realization, you know—what’ll it be? Alienated, cynical intellectual? Or slack-jawed, half-wit consumer of the horseshit being handed down from on high? There is not much choice in there, you see. And we all want our children to be well adjusted; unfortunately, there’s nothing to be well adjusted to” - TM, [“The World and Its Double,” 2:25:28].
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a sick society.” - Jiddu Krishnamurti