Individuality and truth

Ok here's a scary thought experiment. I'll be the subject as its horrible. I am locked in a room with 6 other people and my mobile phone. The 6 people delightful and articulate are convinced that I am Napoleon, I and my friends on the textual end of my mobile phone are convinced I'm not. Within a few days the people in the room are getting to me, within a few weeks I am regularly singing the Marsaillaise and speaking in cod french and within a few months I am walking out the door with a slightly small bloke desire to conquer Europe.

So whats going on here?

First there is the sense that you need a third party to validate truth. The underpinning to this is any rule bound system needs a third party to indicate when the rule had been broken, you cannot provide this for yourself. There is an origin of this idea from the private language argument of Wittgenstein.
Secondly there is a sense of the difference in types of truth, an existential truth, a conceptual truth and a virtual one. Hell more than one type of truth that sucks I thought it was true or false.
Existential truth is where your truth gets validated by existence. I have been reading RD Laings
divided self where he sees that as I meet you, I validate you in your sanity and you validate me in mine. So for any truth that I hold about myself the more it is validated by other people by it being able to be cached out in the world the more it is true. If I think I am a great baker, people better buy my doughnuts, and I better just smell the glories of my creations. A conceptual truth such as knowing that 2=1+1 is an analytic truth, which once you accept mathematical axioms become self evident. They are of type distinction to things which have existential truth. One is validated by definition, one by existence. The last truth, virtual truth is a new one and I think a bit of a scary one.
Communication is said to be 20% verbal and 80% non verbal, so at best txt could be at best 20% effective,you cant empathise with txt, hold txt as a role model nor enage with it as you could with a human, and I must say that the thought that you can replace being with people with being with virtual people is a psychological time bomb waiting to happen.

So when a therapist works with a client then they need to find out and enhance the persons world as they find it. One key here is for this world to have validity it must be engaged with by others to have existential truth. How this caches out is that if a person has private values or actions that do not engage with other people then they will not be well supported or valued in the persons psyche and in time will atrophy and die. They will have a degree of unreality because they have not been existentially validated.

So the Utopian dream from here is that you should work with people who share and engage with your values, as you should with people in your home life. I realise this is rarely the case, and people bracket themselves either at work or at home, and find places during their days when they can be themselves. Some maybe never get this luxury, and need the anaesthesia of drink and drugs to overcome this distance that they live from themselves, or need to have a 2 week holiday where others are their slaves to make themselves feel OK when they are treated as slaves.

References
Emmy Van Deurzen Existential Counselling & Psychotherapy in Practice, page 18-25