I wanted to discuss my motivations for making a wee jaunt into politics in the past 2.5 weeks.
A number of days before the attempted assassination attempt on President Donald Trump I had decided that I was going to remove all limiters, all constraints on my speech to more thoroughly work things out of my system. Those fateful shots were fired a few days later and my desire to not see further escalation and bloodshed occur hitched up with my desire for less inhibition. I spoke out.
In the wonderful way that the world works, the horrid RNC happened and Trump made his JD Vance pick for VP. What was my reward? Nothing. Sure, maybe my engagement went up a little bit and I do think, based on the numerous private shares for almost every one of my posts on Telegram, people are consulting my political opinion because it is generally astute or headed in the right direction even if I flub a few of the details on account of my general inattention and disregard for such things. The cover that people like this have, and I know because I’ve seen it before, is that such and such person is being so embarrassing. But deep down inside is a person who admires me and wishes for me to get the hell away from politics.
It has been about 360 days since I announced my departure from political commentary and I intend on maintaining this stance, despite appearances to the contrary. Allow me to explain. When I originally left politics, it was a sum-effort act of will based on my conscience. Now my conscience is telling me to work out the kinks in a more natural way, as opposed to more of a disavowal as was done last year. I’m far enough away from politics that I can now pop off and know it won’t enter the milieu. This allows me to observe what I am saying without the immediate negative pressure of before. People know about me that I am not practicing a will-to-power. It is not my intention to dominate anyone else or to be submissive, on the other hand (and the two always go hand in hand, despite how cleverly the dominant hide their submissiveness).
Already I am moving away from political statements as I just don’t enjoy the results. It is liberating to be conducting this experiment from an independent standpoint, as opposed to operating in a will-to-power structure. I am sacrificing falsehoods, bit by bit, in an effort to be thorough with my conscience – as opposed to making a disavowal of political commentary more generally and then just staying out as an act of willpower. This will pay dividends in the long run.
I still feel as though my advice to others to “get the hell out” rings true and since I am doing a deeper “getting the hell out”, I don’t feel as though it is hypocrisy on my part to have put out a dose of political commentary in the past 2.5 weeks. For people “deep in the game”, I can imagine that the gossip would be that politics is the rightful place to be and therefore I’ve given up a flight of fancy.
It has been a breath of fresh air to speak without limitations. I am thoroughly satisfied that the net effect has been for me to feel even more divergent from politics.
The goal was never to never ever super ever utter a single political comment publicly. The goal was to be out of a political milieu, mindset, operating principle, and influence.
