Step 2: start reading scientific journals and other high quality sources of information.
Step 3: call all of your friends idiots for not doing the same.
Step 4: begin to hate your life more and more because you can't identify with the appaling ignorance that surrounds you.
Pessimistic step 5: throw yourself off of a tall building.
Optimistic step 5: build a rocket ship and fly to the moon.
Final disposition: you are no longer a part of society at large.