Here’s one approach
NEXT STEP: Ask your friend. How they came to these ideas? And truly listen to the answer.
I know what it's like to live in a world where everything is so "perfect" we forget the rest of the world. That feeling of complete control and satisfaction of what is. This place in our being is what most humans live for and find it either through love, art, sex, or adventure. I started to realize that there tends to be a trend to this feeling and like most addiction we are willing to lose everything for them and deny they exist as are world crumbles or freezes right in front of our eyes. The development of human development realize on testing and retesting our limits and boundaries so for the "simple" sake of human evolution it is crucial we invite other people and ideas in our world to test not only our limits, strengths and boundaries but also our reality. In doing so we will strengthen our natural human abilities but also grow as the one human community.
The best moments in life, come from the ashes of the fire, created by the truth we burn inside for to long. "Freedom"