Each of your friends will have six friends, and each of them will have six friends, etc.
Or maybe you’re in a cult, which is interesting.
That web, or branching out, forms a psychic linking, which creates a much larger group than you’re aware that you’re involved with.
Just being involved in a clique doesn’t mean that clique isn’t part of a broader ideological set, which is likely involved in a much larger group mind, in which you involuntarily participate.

Stay that way. Not a burn. If you can pull it off, that is the best possible solution. Much love. Best to you and yours.