I’m almost completely disinterested in what any politician is doing or not doing, saying or not saying. Team…

I’m almost completely disinterested in what any politician is doing or not doing, saying or not saying. Team sports politics is a distraction, the thinnest veneer of hot air overlaid upon actual, physical problems. Electoral politics was invented as a selection mechanism…/1

…in politics, to pick our representatives in government. Not to run the government. Not to run societies. To give us a voice in part of that hugely complex process, that happens separately to it. That’s all. The objective realities societies face are nearly totally divorced…/2

…from this whole popularity orgy. I couldn‘t give a fuck what Albo said yesterday, or Dutton. Or whether the LNP’s internal culture is fracturing. It’s all soap opera, irrelevant. Go and read some AEMO projections of what’s happening in the electricity grid instead, or…/3

…immerse yourself in the Alice in Wonderland chaos of immunity theory, which will help you navigate the Covid debacle. Objective things. ‘But but but won’t that let politicians just get away with things?’ They already are. But completely ignoring everything they say and…/4

…focusing instead on the objective realities of our situation will shift them a lot faster than being glued to their tawdry irrelevant soap operas every day. Also more joyous for you, you learn things, the actual complexity underlying all of the political hot air becomes…/5

…known to you. It’s that complexity that will determine outcomes here, there’s nothing politicians can do to avoid that. The more we all focus on that, and not on them, the faster change will come. We need to deflate the popularity balloon. Starve it of oxygen. /6 https://t.co/AnfGwc18eo

Underneath all of this daily popularity anxiety, remarkable things have always been happening, and are still happening. Electoral popularity-politics is just getting in the way. Again, the more you ignore it completely, the faster it will disappear. It’s designed to get your…/7 https://t.co/zAfCt9oRSY

…attention, to activate that deep tribalism we all practise in high school, of hierarchy and social status. Social media massively magnifies this, peoples’ nervous systems are going berserk with the daily stimulation of all of this team sports. Shift to the calming world of…/8

…actual, physical reality. Learn what’s actually going on out there, underneath the facade of popularity hot air. Starve the pollies of your attention, which they feed off like vampires. Only that can remove the whole ridiculous popularity roadblock. /end