Depoliticization for thee

Of the people I know IRL who were staunchly, rabidly anti-Trump, the healthiest responses I’ve seen have a variation of “yeah I had to just stop following it all for a while.” In some cases these people seem happier than when they were following politics and “winning.”

Depoliticization might be the best outcomes possible for many Dems (and a good chunk of Rs). I don’t think the insane Trump doomerism has been good for the mental wellbeing of the left or center-left. A lot of otherwise normal people have been made to feel hysterical about issues that don’t really have any effect on their lives. (Or issues where their lives would get actively better if they would get out of the way.) This affects my friends and family directly.

The standard Moldbuggian critique of Democracy is that the regime will necessarily take control of the minds of the electorate as a primary goal. True. We’re in a period where the regime’s dysfunctionality is preventing it from doing this particularly well. That doesn’t mean people will suddenly flip to specific anti-regime views. Yielding on a particular issue like affirmative action in college admissions will involve one side becoming unwilling or unable to fight.

I’d like to hear the forum’s thoughts on what, if anything, can be done to facilitate that depoliticization.

You're right. In reality most of the social things online affect people's lives very little and do not majorly change the course of living for someone. The most important thing to change your life is your employment, family, income, and school.

Those with self control will be able to ignore it, but they will find themselves lonely where others are glued to their phones and live strangely.

With regards to your family and friends: can you stop them from eating seed oils and PUFAs? Are they responsive and alert, able to have coherent dialogues with you and plan for the future together?

We may have to consider that some lives are just a script unfolding without any purpose or meaning, and that there's nothing that can be done to change it except for connecting with people who are alive in a sense.