Not really. Experience induced clarity.

I'm like OP. I've been in the tech industry for a stupid amount of years, and I swear I can improvise a CEO grade speech for any circumstance.

> I swear I can improvise a CEO grade speech for any circumstance.

Ouch, watch out with that attitude. CEOs are full of bluster and no action, so you might be risking becoming what you hate.

Or he was just proving his point on the spot?

Disillusionment: "a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be."

> Not really.

How so?

Well, it's not disappointing really, it's just recognition.

I have no problem with how the system works, it's silly, it's unbalanced, it's all based on illusions, but here it is...

You can either feel disappointed and become all bitter and twisted, or you can just play the game. In many ways, it's fun, especially when you get that perception of clarity -- compensates for all these years you were the pawn.