I posted this on my YouTube community tab and people liked it so I’ll post it here too.
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This is pretty important but if you want to stay sane you’ll have to gradually start weaning yourself off the internet, besides obvious stuff like work and music. Furthermore, you should probably start isolating from the society itself. You need to start building psychological insulation from the society in order to avoid going crazy since practically everyone is going crazy now. That includes every major country and every major faction. There are different varieties of insanity though. Many skies carry different sorrows, however they all carry their own sorrows.
The entire internet is going through a mass hysteria and mass delusion event now. It’s not going to end soon and will likely get significantly worse. The public has lost the ability to maintain basic objectivity or causal logic. We are entering mouse utopia so plan accordingly. It has nothing stopping it from spiraling into utter madness. They’re consumed with rage to a degree where they look for any excuse to hurt others. There’s no support or love. It’s pretty disgusting. At the same time people have no other grounding and so they just believe whatever the mob says uncritically. They can’t differentiate their personal opinions from what the news or collective zeitgeist is. They’ve become part of a hivemind without realizing it. We’re in the middle of a sort of strange mass hypnosis event where we’ve been lulled into madness by the monotony of a highly strange context.
Starting now if you want to survive or win you have to start separating your own frame of consciousness from the internet and the world. You can’t be in a state where whatever is on the news is the predominant thing in your internal monologue. It’s just going to keep getting worse so you have to unplug now to gradually train psychological independence. I will warn you that weaning off from screen addiction is a legitimate emotional and psychological withdrawal. It’s unpleasant and may give you physical symptoms but it’s not too bad all things considered.
You can do this in a handful of ways. Firstly, just consuming less online media. There’s not much that’s good out now so this should be easier than it sounds. I’m not saying complete abstinence, but rather not consuming to the degree it becomes your internal monologue. You need a distinct internal monologue. The singular best thing you can have here is faith in God and the ability to create a separate grounding from the culture through God. Maintain your code of honor to the death. You could talk to your friends and family but they’re also possibly mentally ill so that’s not surefire. You should speak to the general public as little as possible. You should read books from different eras of history so you have knowledge and wisdom distinct from this individual moment. Develop hobbies, go outside and knit. I don’t care, just do anything that’s not hooked up to the news cycle. I did this a few months ago and it’s allowed me to see what’s going on now with detached horror. It’s a difficult process but after a little bit your life acclimates. You learn to realize since everyone else is addicted, there’s nothing else to really do besides the internet.
You have to gradually build out your own psychological state of independence from the culture if you want to make it through this since the culture is going to keep getting worse. Once enough of us do this, we can start forming institutions and communities where we can live healthier and more sane existences. This is just momentary pain. It’s not easy but we don’t have a choice. You must always hold the iron bar, knowing that this is an uncomfortable situation but you are always ultimately responsible for yourself before God. You always have the ability to exert self control.
National park admission should be free for Americans (it’s our land) and expensive for everyone else, especially given the obscene amount of federal taxes we already pay.