Politics won’t save you.

Politics won’t solve your problems.

Politics doesn’t make you a better human being.

Not having a clue about politics is a virtue, rather than a vice.

 

….until it’s not.

When politics go bad — it’s bad.

When politics go bad — it can kill you.

When politics go bad — friends become enemies.

When politics go bad — the world is left a far worse off place.

 

Is this a reason yet to blame the world instead of yourself? NO.

You are always guilty. It’s always your fault.

You can always tangibly improve today. Get back to me and tell me if focusing on politics tangibly improved anything in your life today

 

But there does come a point when you may want to take interest in politics,

When politics is going well — chances are you are in NO position to have any fucking clue how to run the state/organisation better. Likely you can’t even run yourself.

But when politics are going bad — it goes really bad.

It goes so bad that it really does become likely that you would do a better job than the one up there.

And then it matters that you have a clue.

Your dissent matters. Your opinion suddenly matters.

 

If you’re going to take interest in something — might as well do it the right way.

Politics usually happens at scale. Which means it’s difficult to just learn by trial and error And likely you’re in no position to do any practical trials whatsoever, you are in no position to call any shots.

Everyone is ignorant but the real world doer.

And even the “real world doers”, our wonderful politicians — don’t really know what they’re doing. There’s very very very little that is certain at scale. It’s just too complicated and unpredictable. We just do our best.

Therefore you’re in no position to be certain about anything at all, regarding politics.

This is where you should start — realising that truth.

You can’t be certain about anything that happens at scale.

And you can’t be certain of anything which you haven’t tried and tested, repeatedly, yourself. There’s no skipping the first-hand feedback loop and iterating.

And with politics — for you it’s both fathomless scale — and abstract second-hand experience.

Therefore the best you can hope for is to just be informed

 

How to be informed?

You start by not being DISINFORMED.

You get rid of all the media because all of it is either myopic — or downright bullshit.

You get a fucking book and learn the basics. Or you take a course or have AI teach you or go to school — I don’t care.

First you learn the basics.

You learn about politics, sociology, economy, a little philosophy, plenty history.

You learn that.

That’s 90% of what you do,

The remaining 10% is you look at the RECENT FACTS.

Not what he or she said — but what has actually happened. And what the actual consequences were.

You synthesise that information with the knowledge you’ve been building.

You form an opinion.

OPINION indeed. Because you’re still clueless.

You tested nothing. You did nothing. You achieved nothing. You just formed an opinion.

The best you can do is make predictions — and with time see how accurate they are.

But you’re still not a DOER — therefore don’t think too highly of yourself. Predictions-game is still far easier than the real-world-outcomes-game.

 

And as you did all that — it STILL won’t save you.

What really matters is what you tangibly improve today, in your own REAL life.

So don’t ever get too prideful about your little political and historical and sociological and philosophical insights. Nobody cares and you shouldn’t either. You should care about your real life outcomes.

But what you did gain is that you’re no longer a vessel of toxic ignorance — ready to be detonated by any malicious demagogue, for his own world-burning ends.

 

What you also gained is that you broadened your perspective.

Again don’t overestimate it,

But there actually are insights from politics, history, sociology, etc, which can be applied in real life.

You must first LIVE a real life. You must first be DOING SOMETHING — in order to APPLY that knowledge. Otherwise it’s useless.

But if you are doing a lot — then learning more and thinking more is obviously of benefit.

And it’s often a good thing that you will be integrating knowledge that’s more indirectly beneficial to your goals. It gives you a fresh perspective.

 

Conclusion:

-Please recognise that likely you are not better than the world

-Please recognise that likely you don’t have a clue about how to run this world

-But please also recognise that when things go wrong — suddenly those things impact you — and you have more impact yourself

-This still doesn’t absolve you from taking massive personal responsibility and focusing on REAL improvements in your REAL life first

-But it does create an incentive to perhaps become a good, informed citizen

-Which of course happens when you educate yourself, and not by letting others educate you

-Let’s still hope people and system more sophisticated than you will run things for you

-But what you learned may just prove useful