Well, are you a child at heart for calling someone a phony?
Really and truly?
Could it be that your prejudice is symptomatic of your acute awareness of the individuals' attempt to be (something or other)?
Is it possible that
you are intelligent?
That you've come to realize something the others haven't?
Are the masses truly higher and mightier than you alone?
Or perhaps, they are blind in their ignorance?
To perceive and project the truth as it comes to you is a heavy burden to bare. However, when intuition is keen and judgement justified, it is freedom.
But who's to say