So you enter soft, raw & stupid. Expecting merit to matter & decency to win.
He never outgrew that. Never learned that most insults are just tactical jabs not truth. That alliances shift. That people say one thing & maneuver another. He clings to their words like gospel but ignores their patterns. Their history. Their moves. That's what cooks him.
He burns from the inside, outraged that the game isn't fair. That it is a game. He can't detach. Can't rise above.