Since the war in Ukraine is unfolding a few hundred kilometers from where I live I thought it would be a good idea to talk about how everyone became a politician overnight.
This phenomenon is not just taking off now in 2022.
Those of us who have been using the internet a little too much have noticed this interesting pattern starting to develop around 2016 on a mainstream level.
About half a year before the 2016 Presidential Elections in the United States, almost all of the high traffic platforms became propaganda machines whose owners thought they could allow small, so-called debates to take place when it was obvious that there were a lot of biases floating around.
It didn’t take long for people to spout out rumors, theories, bursts of anger, and all-around immature reactions towards an event that, supposedly, is meant to be targeted toward responsible adults.
Politicians, typically, are people who, either are or were stellar in their field of work and decided to take their maturity and a lifetime of experiences and help build and strengthen everyone around them, or people who made politics their entire career from the beginning and look at every area of life from and administrative point of view.
The average Joe or Jane never stopped for a second to thoroughly analyze what politicians are or what they do and, therefore, they are left in the dark, misinformed, and vulnerable to fake news.
And since nobody took the time to educate themselves, the outcome was obvious: everyone became a politician!
Everyone knows the best way to implement a pandemic mandate, everyone knows where the virus escaped or how it happened, what is to be done about it, how to lower gas prices and for how long, etc.
If we want to remain sane among all of this, let’s take a few steps back and follow common sense by respecting a few rules.
- Eliminate mainstream media
I promise Fox News and CNN don’t tell you anything worth your time.
Today, the job of those who work in the mainstream is to package the most basic information in such a form that it won’t offend a 70yr old.
You are better off finding information closest to the truth from people who are willing to share it on the internet.
2. Priorities
Being an information junky isn’t an easy lifestyle, definitely not an enjoyable one.
If for whatever reason, you have an affinity for searching up the politics and the wrap-around of a certain situation, then you should strive to focus more on understanding the legal side (the legalise language) and only then attempt to interpret what is being delivered to you.
Watching Biden giving a speech, or seeing the NATO chiefs talking about military operations will seem either, void of meaning, or just plain fear-inducing if you can’t see it through the proper lens.
When a politician is full of it, you will be able to call them out faster, easier, and help everyone around you do the same.
3. Break down the newest fashion
Now, when I’m writing this, people have been conditioned to feel bad about not abiding by certain abusive laws or not rooting and supporting a certain side of a war happening outside their borders.
Some years back, if you didn’t agree with the invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan, you were also put on the spot. Some years before, if you didn’t agree with whatever the democratic party had to say, you were too old-fashioned, some years before that, if you were left-leaning you were a terrorist according to McCarthy.
The new fad, the new dumb clothes people choose to wear shouldn’t bother you.
And most importantly: LIVE YOUR LIFE!
We as a collective pay and trust people with our finance, safety, border control, and policing.
If and when they all fail, it means something was wrong from the get-go, like a castle built on sand. If that is the case, then we should do what we should always do: live life today and now.
Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has yet to come.
