… It’s all cringe. Don’t involve yourself in politics; it’s gay. Politics is not supposed to be something people do that’s cool. It’s for losers. And I know people get so upset at me cuz they spent their entire year, every day—I watch you, so don’t say you didn’t—but they’re online all day, they’ve done nothing else but election stuff, and that’s all they do for a living. That’s their fucking life. So it’s not going away; they’ve been activated. This is what they do now. You know? What are they gonna do? This is what they do. This is their new hobby for a very long time…
What are they gonna do? This is what they do. This is their new hobby for a very long time…1
— Mike David., Red Bar Radio
This quote came from the 2016 election night, and nearly everyone is still here eight years later. They’ve spent the last decade arguing with people about politics, religion, and social issues—all realms they’ve deluded themselves into believing they play a role in. This is what Herd Mentality looks like. Don’t believe me? I have hundreds of these on my computer.
I just watched politicians from both sides of the aisle vote to keep a dying government and a failed society afloat. To continue allowing the Federal Reserve to own and keep the American government in debt. They say people deserve the governance they get; I couldn’t agree more.
Instead of demanding the end of the Federal Reserve or rolling out guillotines to forcibly remove these politicians from office, I saw morons that don’t play a role in the process writing paragraphs online to illustrate how smart they are and how dumb everyone else is. Frankly, it’s embarrassing.
If you need politics or politicians to save you, feed you, educate you, or give you handouts, you’re too far gone to be saved.
I’m maintaining this little collage to remind my readers as to why they’re here—what separates them from the herd, the ‘speedbumps,’ the gawking rabble, the human pollution—whatever pejorative you wish to describe the huddled masses, too busy bickering with their fellow man to save themselves.
I found the best possible use for social media (especially Twitter): I log in, I see whatever political topics are trending, I screencap 5–10 items, and I log out. A daily reminder of who has mental sovereignty and who is lacking. A sobering reminder of the lack of adrenaline control in the average American. These people are now, and will always be, attached to dogma. They’re too far gone.
When you become mentally detached from all these meaningless processes, everything becomes free comedy. Also, I accept that my enjoyment of other people’s misery constitutes schadenfreude. However, I’m also not egotistical enough to delude myself into believing I can change the world or fix broken systems. What none of these people seem to understand is that the reason the system appears broken is that they’re looking at it from the wrong angle. If they benefitted (or, better yet, detached) from the system, would it still feel broken? Perhaps, but they’ll never know, because they can’t get past the base level: arguing over minutiae.
A wise man once wrote:
Hoping to be free, many people engage in continual social combat—joining movements, urging political action, writing letters to editors and Congressmen, trying to educate people…2
You can be free without changing the world. You can live your life as you want to live it—no matter what others decide to do with their lives…3
It’s not likely that you’ll ever gain your freedom by joining, marching, picketing, or complaining—because all those methods rely upon changing the attitudes of others. What I have in mind concerns the use of methods over which you have complete control…4
Another wise man wrote, “Every country has the government it deserves.”5 I say people deserve the governance they tolerate. The only good government is an unproductive government:
I urged you to dedicate 2024 to intellectual curiosity, and most of you spent it following false prophets, presidential elections, and other nonsense outside your sphere of influence.
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This is what Herd Mentality looks like:
So these are the people you share the world with. Please join me in mocking them. If your friends and family act like this online, start your own collage. People are susceptible to mocking, bullying, and shaming—hence the social movements to end shaming and stigmatizing language.
Now’s your chance to leave it all behind and have a fresh start. My target audience will heed my advice and separate themselves from it once and for all. The rest will either never read these words or write them off.
David, Mike. “Red Bar Election Special, Part 1.” Red Bar Radio. Podcast audio, November 10, 2016. https://redbarradio.net/archives/red-bar-election-special-part-1
Browne, Harry. How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty. Tono Press, 2014, 1.
Ibid., 2.
Ibid., 3.
“Joseph de Maistre Quotes” Goodreads. n.d. Accessed December 21, 2024. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/188705.Joseph_de_Maistre