Technically, it’s been 22 months since I made the official announcement that I was leaving politics but the decision was made a little over 24 calendar months ago.
In this entry, I want to look at a few statements I made in my One Year Retired From Politics article and see if they still hold true.
Before we jump into that, I’d like to bring your attention to my Updates page. I have compiled everything I have released publicly on this page into on easy-to-navigate index. There’s still much to put in there but it feels good to finally have some kind of one-stop shop for my audience. It will all be there! Plus, old stuff from the archives will be going up – “reuploads” and such.
I have seen a continual degradation in political commentary as the political situation goes down the tubes. -August 26th, 2024
There has been an uptick, given that civil war was staved off due to Kamala Harris not getting into the White House as POTUS. Also, X has held out somewhat as a free speech platform. It’s not perfect but it is much improved, in some respects, over Twitter. Elon did got totally apeshit when the peasants sniffed out his H1B predilection, though.
We are living through a time of unprecedented societal breakdown.
The breakdown continues but the pace has slackened in the short term in order for the big pieces to be moved into place more efficiently. The surveillance curtain is still going up. America looks to be carved up into housing slums. Gold is still quietly being moved into central bank balance sheets. A Kamala presidency would have been a total clownshow and Trump would have been forced to be the figurehead of an insurgency. He isn’t that, though. He’s the Boomer Whisperer. Big money puts him where he’s best.
Having emerged from politics, I can see now that my level of performance was compromised by my health issues and people of low quality were able to approach me that would not otherwise have been able to. My health issues hurt my confidence!
Getting out of politics gave me some much needed breathing room to address my health. I finally found a healthcare provider that hasn’t just rushed me out the door with scattershot pharmaceuticals. I’m on a treatment protocol now and it’s been brutal. Apparently what I’ve had has gotten to a 9.5/10 bad level. Brother. Last year I thought I had it more wrangled than I did. This year I found the right solutions/tools/therapies and we’re on our way! Let’s check in on this in 12 months.
I believe peaceful parenting is the greatest moral struggle of our time, far transcending in scope and importance anything that could be going on in politics. I think a greater and greater number of people in politics know this fact and are, instead of humbly doing the right thing, doubling down on their personal dog and pony shows.
It’s hard to qualify that statement on peaceful parenting when WWIII is breathing down the world’s neck and the American homefront is about to be opened up to endless H1B’s and Dollar Generals.
It’s a hard ask – hoping influencers out there will set down the drama and will-to-power and focus more on the family. Society moves in the shadow cast by the family. I’ve seen, in the past year, some people retire from commentary in order to focus on personal or legal matters. Something tells me they’ll be back and with not any more focus on the family.
There does seem to be this bifurcation: you either talk about the family or you don’t. And the people who don’t are in a will-to-power. The people who do are kind of taking an easy, less courageous path of not having to stand in the regime pain box for any amount of time.
Is Steven unretired from politics?
I mean, I am making statements like this:
That said, I am not pursuing a will-to-power. I see what I’m doing as “working with reality”. Certain paths need to be opened up in order for the world to become a more virtuous place. I figure that commenting on whatever is in the public eye will draw focus onto the depth work I’m involved in on behalf of the world.
Also, as I explained in a portion of this premium video in March 2025, too much of my mental space has been influenced by Stefan Molyneux and while I still donate to him regularly, I’ve got to do my own thing. I’ve sent my disagreements to him and heard nothing back. That is what it is. I’ve done a lot of thinking on my call-in to him a couple years ago and have come to have a different view on what happened there – and have told him so. Yet I still remain so grateful to him for helping me get out of politics. A lot of people interpreted what happened with me calling in like that that I was leaving one camp to go and join his. But just empirically speaking, that hasn’t happened. I will continue to fight for peaceful parenting across the world, I will continue to promote UPB.
But I will do these things because they’re the right thing to do – not because I think it will do any favors for me in terms of Molyneux. People who are JOINERS have a hard time processing this. I still enjoy listening to FDR sometimes but most of it feels like it doesn’t apply to me, anymore. That’s just my RTR experience!
Once my health stuff is more in the clear, I will be pursuing more art. It’s almost time. It’s been too long since I’ve written a full novel. It’s been too long since I released a full album. I have at my disposal a nuclear option for my health issues but I’m pursuing more of a natural therapeutic course, for now.
As you can see, I’ve been in the same setting for about three weeks now. FINALLY some stability from which to produce content and continue these philosophical works.
What a soul search these past two years have been. But compared to the three years before that, it’s been heavenly! It has been a circuitous journey. Thanks for being here with me.
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