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The Antidote to Outrage: How to Avoid Taking the Bait From Society
On navigating the murky societal waters
At this point, I feel it’s my job to keep you relatively sane, focused, and adaptable to the times. Because, let me tell you, we’re just getting started. In several articles and videos, I talked about how 2020 would turn out and how it will continue to turn out.
While I didn’t predict the specifics, obviously, I was dead on about the general sentiment. It’s an election year, which means that the outrage dial is going to turn all the way up. The tragedies are real, but much of the chaos is manufactured.
The world is going to be painted as a much worse place than it actually is, each political side is going to fan the flames and trigger their bases based on the narratives they implanted in their minds long ago.
And most everyone is going to fall for it. Everyone already is falling for it. People are having arguments with straw men, fictional ghosts created by the media.
All of a sudden, every individual instance of injustice is being displayed right in front of your face. Funny how the frequency of these events on social media has multiplied by 50.
Instead of realizing that the world will never be perfect, people will create a mental…
