Dark manipulation on Instagram: "For Franz Kafka, life was less a journey than a grand masquerade—a costume party where everyone, including himself, moved about hidden behind carefully crafted masks. Polite words, gestures of affection, roles of duty—all were disguises concealing what lay underneath. Yet in this hall of mirrors, no one truly recognized another; not even the unmasked self was safe from distortion. To Kafka, this was the quiet tragedy of existence: people surrounded by one another