Health Homework (38) Healthy disengagement from sociopolitical chaos

"To the incurable, one should not seek to be a physician." Friedrich Nietzsche

2024 August recap (excerpted from video above):

1. Ineffective social engagement drains energy from other/better forms of engagement. Social engagement is an essential component of adulthood, but engagement with an impenetrable chaos is wasted effort that detracts from engagement in other areas where that same adult could have meaningful impact.

2. If you can't control the storm, then disengage and let it run its course.

3. Put your energy into things that make a difference. Better to make a big difference on a smaller topic than zero impact on a huge topic.

4. Whatever is not worth remembering and commenting at the end of the month isn't worth the investment of time during the month, either.

5. The American political scene is complete chaos and clearly forced selection among the lesser of evils.

6. An important part of the globalist agenda is to convert your "free speech" into "hate speech" or "misinformation" or "disinformation" so they will have the excuse to censor, fine, or imprison anyone who disagrees with them.

Quote of the month:

"The dream is to shrink the government so small that it vanishes from our daily consciousness. Right now, politics dominates our lives, hogging our attention, our money, our mental bandwidth. We develop parasocial relationships with politicians, talking heads, and pundits—figures who’ll never know us, but whose every move, tweet, or scandal consumes our thoughts. Meanwhile, our real relationships suffer, our time is wasted, and our lives become a series of distractions from what truly matters. We live in fear of breaking obscure laws or offending some bureaucratic overlord, all while worrying about how much we owe the man, who’s sucking us dry just to waste it on the next pet project or bloated program. Instead of simply living our lives—going to work, loving our families, and experiencing the richness of existence—we're forced to navigate a maze of regulations designed to keep us anxious and obedient. We worry more about what some distant politician is doing than about the people in front of us. This isn’t how it’s supposed to be. Government should be so insignificant that we don’t have to think about it. Imagine the freedom of a life where the state is so small, so unintrusive, that you can focus entirely on what actually matters: your relationships, your work, your passions. Instead of wasting energy on the latest political circus, we could channel it into meaningful experiences, genuine connections, and personal fulfillment. We should be doing nothing other than relentlessly working to cut out the noise, shrink the state, and reclaim our lives. The less we think about government, the more we can think about living. That’s the dream—real freedom." Dylan Allman‬, 30 August 2024 x.com/dylanmallman/status/1829705426763383063