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>Politics bothers me less, and I'm less likely to get hot and bothered about the latest scandal. I get the desire to unplug from politics. It seems such a was
by Lawtonfogle 12y ago
>Politics bothers me less, and I'm less likely to get hot and bothered about the latest scandal.
I get the desire to unplug from politics. It seems such a waste of very precious time, with one's impact on it being minimal at best.
Yet I can't justifying unplugging because of the lives I've seen ruined due to bad politics. Consider just the damage done from the war on drugs.
- saraid216 12y agoThere's a great mental model called the Circle of Concern and the Circle of Influence. Happiness, according to this model, is about making the former circle only slightly smaller than the latter. For some people, "focusing their thinking" means acknowledging their powerlessness and becoming unbothered by it, narrowing their scope to the things they can actually do something about. For them, politics was never useful, because they never believed they had any influence. For others, such focus means pushing out their influence to encompass more things, so that their concerns are something they can do something about. For these people, politics is inevitable and necessary, because influence will naturally touch more and more lives and consequently, more and more politics.