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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: What is anomie? [philosophy]
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It's a state when you are given a goal to achieve (e.g. get cake) but no guidance as to how to achieve it. Moreover everything you try turns out to be somewhat "wrong" and not accepted by other people but noone can tell you how to do it right. 

Anomie makes people upset and they need to figure out "a way" to achieve goals. For example people may withdraw themselves from life (*cake is bad*), choose to achieve set goals in a way disapproved by the society (get cake in any way possible whether others like it or not) or rebel (*I don't need cake*).