Have you been recruited without your knowledge?

[MutedMiles]

Recently I had sometime on my hand and I noticed that the content that I was consuming last few years made me rather over-sensitive, discontent and have an exaggerated view of the world and it's problems. This happened so gradually that I didn't notice until I stopped everything and sat with myself without any obligations for few months. At first I thought that's what aging is and that's how things are getting worst, but it was much more then that. I'm kind of coming out of it gradually.
 
My main recommendation is to "consciously consume content", this way you'll reduce the workload of your system. This is not about just online content, but offline too. Human system can be over-whelmed, people are spending enormous amount of time and energy (And with AI's help too) to hook you mentally, recruit or convert you for their petty agenda or just have you as a follower. Apart from that in face to face discussions too, people are more inclined to discuss problems (not solutions, just problems), because somehow problems attract attention. So it's whole lot of attention seeking content all around us. Until we are conscious about it, we could be drowned in it.

I would add few points which helped me:

1. It's not necessary to have an opinion on everything, it's a matter of choice no matter how pressing something seems to someone it's your choice to ignore having opinion about it. I call this the "master key" to ignore.

2. It's not necessary to stay updated on current events.

3. It's not necessary that people agree with you.

4. It's totally okay if people don't  like you, specially the hypothetical people that you meet online. 

5. It's perfectly fine to die quietly, while no one knew that you existed.

No 5, is particularly important, because nothing is done until you address death. And I'll be totally fine if you had no opinion about this post too.. 

Cheers..

Note: There are more points, but I don't want to write a longer post.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

This is very astute and self aware.

Theres a famous saying that is relevant here 'If a business supplies something for free, your data, attention & engagement is the charge' in other words those business' are using YOU for revenue. 

Your attention is your most powerful asset. 

Beneath this you are unveiling all the insidious ways culture tries to embed into you beliefs that you need to be a certain 'way'. 

No. You just need to be a based motherfucker - provided you do no harm to others of course. A compassionate based motherfucker 😜

Annnnnnd this is just my opinion, so here you see, I am complicit with point No.1 !!! Was this necessary? Maybe not. My aim was to make you laugh and feel empowered on your inner path, free of these veils 💜

Edited May 30 by Natasha Tori Maru

[SOUL]

Yea, this can be a powerful insight. @MutedMiles

If I may add some context to this.

To have an 'opinion' it implies a certain amount of judgment of something, usually in the sense of morality, a binary of right or wrong, good or bad. Just observing and allowing something to be what it is without us trying to categorize it frees up the consciousness from being trapped in dualism.

The next piece is nuanced and I hope you don't hear it is criticism because it isn't, I just want to illuminate something else I see in your words. It is with not just the word but the dynamic of 'ignore' because ignoring still is attracting and attaching some of one's attention.

To ignore implies turning away from or resisting something which can drain us of the precious presence of being. As I mentioned in the first bit we can just observe without trying to conceptualize what is, just let what it is to be what it is. It is what it is regardless of what we think it is.

It's virtually impossible to be completely ignorant to our surroundings and the stimuli that comes from our environment but to mitigate the attachment to it's conditioning and programming is crucial. It will allow for a transcendence of the conditional mind to an unconditional state of consciousness.

Yet you have already become aware of the hardest part so you are well on your way to a lasting state of well being.

[Rishabh R]

It's totally okay if people don't  like you, specially the hypothetical people that you meet online. - This resonated a lot with me. 

Life will move forward no matter how much people bully you , hate you or insult you.

[MutedMiles]

On 5/31/2025 at 1:28 AM, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Annnnnnd this is just my opinion, so here you see, I am complicit with point No.1 !!! Was this necessary? Maybe not. My aim was to make you laugh and feel empowered on your inner path, free of these veils 💜

Thanks for sharing your time and attention.  I agree our attention is the most powerful and precious thing we have. Though people say this about time, but mere time without attention defeats the purpose.

[MutedMiles]

On 5/31/2025 at 10:15 AM, SOUL said:

To ignore implies turning away from or resisting something which can drain us of the precious presence of being. As I mentioned in the first bit we can just observe without trying to conceptualize what is, just let what it is to be what it is. It is what it is regardless of what we think it is.

It's virtually impossible to be completely ignorant to our surroundings and the stimuli that comes from our environment but to mitigate the attachment to it's conditioning and programming is crucial. It will allow for a transcendence of the conditional mind to an unconditional state of consciousness.

Yet you have already become aware of the hardest part so you are well on your way to a lasting state of well being.

I agree with your point, to ignore implies resisting, which implies a kind of failing to ignore and a kind of efforting. 
The better phrase would be "benevolent indifference",  I don't remember from where I got it, but it describes the state of mind better.

[MutedMiles]

On 5/31/2025 at 10:50 AM, Rishabh R said:

It's totally okay if people don't  like you, specially the hypothetical people that you meet online. - This resonated a lot with me. 

Life will move forward no matter how much people bully you , hate you or insult you.

At times I do revisit this need to have people like me too or agree with me or have a generally positive view of me. It's something that is rooted in survival but it's an example where mind takes survival too far, since someone disliking or disagreeing has no impact on physical survival this could be understood deep down which unlocks the hold of ego, because at a subtler level that's how ego or self perpetuates survival, it gets threatened by these situations.

Edited June 2 by MutedMiles

[Princess Arabia]

I like the reasonings in this post. Very nicely put and well thought out.

Edited June 2 by Princess Arabia