postyX - Mental Pollution is the real crisis

00:00:00.000 I think one of the greatest ironies in today's society is what we prioritize when it comes to

00:00:06.800 health, especially. We filter the water we drink. You know, lots of us won't drink tap water as it

00:00:13.080 is, even though we did that as children. We fight for clean air. We have the, you know,

00:00:18.220 environmentalists that go hard on the clean air and the smog. And, you know, yeah, it's true.

00:00:23.100 There's lots of smog. You know, we worry about environmental toxins and flu germs and catching a

00:00:28.720 cold. So much so that people wore masks for years, despite no definitive evidence that they even

00:00:35.220 work. They made themselves suffer and be uncomfortable, even though there was no

00:00:41.760 evidence ever that it worked. But, you know, the biggest toxin, the biggest form of pollution,

00:00:46.660 and it kind of all ties into all this stuff is the thing that most people ignore. And it's mental

00:00:51.940 pollution, tick-tock brain, media mass psychosis could be another, you know, term to call it.

00:00:59.280 It's like an invisible fog that clouds our minds, you know, distorts our thoughts, it reshapes our

00:01:03.940 brain, and then, you know, inevitably it reshapes our lives. Overstimulation is one of the biggest

00:01:10.380 issues and one of the greatest causes, I think, of this brain rot that we're all suffering. You know,

00:01:18.040 we live in an age of constant stimulation. From the moment we wake up, our minds are bombarded with,

00:01:23.600 you know, texts, news, you know, ads, updates, content. It's like, it's no longer about information,

00:01:30.480 it's more like overload. Studies show that, you know, the average person sees between 6,000 and 10,000

00:01:38.220 ads per day. I definitely don't because I will pay whatever extra fee I have to, to avoid ads. But

00:01:44.580 I'm sure the average normie who spends a lot of time on TikTok or Instagram probably does see those.

00:01:52.480 So our attention spans are shrinking dramatically. And a deep focus is a very rare luxury. I know for

00:01:58.600 myself, I struggle so much. And, you know, they try to diagnose you with ADHD. And it's like, but I

00:02:05.620 never had a problem when I was younger, right? So this kind of stuff just happened with the onset of

00:02:09.420 social media and having these little computers in our hands and at our easy access all the time,

00:02:16.820 right? So the mental pollution, it really does begin here with the inability to sit still with

00:02:22.180 a single thought. It, sensory overload, like it causes difficulty focusing, relaxing, it leads to

00:02:29.280 anxiety and panic attacks. And, you know, gives the rate of mental illness diagnosis for anxiety and

00:02:35.500 depression. Like this shouldn't be too surprising, right? Those have gone up exponentially with social

00:02:41.800 media as well. And I know a lot of, you know, therapists and all these people will say, well,

00:02:45.680 it's because, you know, people feel bad about themselves because thief is, or comparison is

00:02:49.420 the thief of joy. And yeah, that probably has something to do with it too. But it's the fact that

00:02:53.680 you're not getting any kind of quality information. It's just literally like, it's brain rot. It literally

00:02:59.440 is brain rot. When's the last time, and I can speak for myself, when is the last time you

00:03:05.200 watched like an entire movie without looking at your phone, peeking at your phone for any kind of,

00:03:09.860 you know, notification, it becomes like automatic and ingrained in your brain, like your brain's core

00:03:15.120 process. It's a nefarious purpose to this type of pollution too. It acts like as a brainwashing

00:03:20.680 tool. And I mean, literally brainwashing, not the euphemism brainwashing. I mean, like it leaves

00:03:26.020 your brain with nothing, like totally clean slate, like empty. Mark Twain had said, this quote comes from

00:03:33.100 Mark Twain. If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are

00:03:38.600 misinformed. And this is true. We all saw this during the Convid scam. The modern mind is not just

00:03:44.540 overstimulated, it's misinformed, right? Especially if you're somebody who consumes a lot of the

00:03:49.140 mainstream media or news, as we would call it in, you know, your average news that you would watch on

00:03:55.460 cable TV. And on social media, the algorithms don't show you the truth, they show you engagement. So

00:04:02.000 something that is getting more engagement is what you're going to see, not something that is

00:04:05.040 necessarily the truth. That's huge in social media. Clickbait, outrage and lies, you know,

00:04:10.840 they rise faster than verified facts. I know sometimes I like a good drama too, I'm not going

00:04:15.080 to lie. And this is the model that the mainstream media uses as well. The thing with mainstream media

00:04:20.920 and why it's very bad to kind of get all your information from there, or any of it, is that they use,

00:04:27.320 like they have a short window of time for their content, right? Because things are constantly

00:04:31.260 changing, and they're constantly competing to stay on top. So their content is almost always

00:04:36.160 short form content. And you can't form an educated opinion by consuming strictly short form content.

00:04:43.200 It doesn't give you enough details to form, you know, a good perspective. It doesn't really give

00:04:48.140 you enough details for anything, really. It is just there like the surface level information. So it really

00:04:53.540 is not a good place to get information if you want to be enlightened and informed.

00:04:58.920 With too much to consume and no time to vet it all, the mind becomes cluttered, confused and numb.

00:05:05.740 And at that point, you know, we get lazy, and we just basically take the first thing we come across,

00:05:10.640 we drown in information, but we're starving for wisdom. The psychological smog that is social media.

00:05:18.240 Social media was initially created with probably Facebook, we all remember Facebook being at least I

00:05:23.860 remember Facebook being like the first kind of major social media site where you could connect with

00:05:28.180 people. That's what it was initially created for, for people to connect all across the world. And it did.

00:05:33.420 It's like, like all things, right? Like the intentions may have been good. And it was a good tool. But then

00:05:38.940 obviously, as things improve, it ends up going down the toilet or something suffers. You know, not always

00:05:45.920 the social media companies are not suffering, but our brains and our social connections and our

00:05:51.140 relationships are suffering. But you know, more often than not, it ends up disconnecting us from

00:05:57.660 ourselves. It rewards a performative living, it rewards acting and faking shit where your identity 0.99

00:06:03.740 becomes a brand. And you only get validation from strangers, you stop believing in your own worth, 0.98

00:06:09.820 stuff like that you compare your behind the scenes to everyone else's highlight reel. Like I said earlier,

00:06:15.280 comparison is the thief of joy. And that's all social media is. If you're, you know, one of these

00:06:20.400 influences or influencers, or you're, you know, a creator on social media, and your brand is your

00:06:26.880 look, right? The result of all that is obviously you got your envy, your anxiety, and definitely

00:06:33.140 isolation. It's a kind of psychological smog. It's like, really thick. And a lot of people will talk

00:06:38.840 about walking around feeling like they're in a fog. And, you know, they, again, chalk it up to Oh,

00:06:43.740 it's anxiety. It's, you know, whatever, I have panic attacks, I'm not sleeping well, maybe it's

00:06:49.940 this, that it's probably a lot to do with what you're eating. And it's definitely a lot to do with

00:06:54.120 social media and the fact that your brain is rotting from consuming copious amounts of Chinese 1.00

00:06:59.480 garbage, like TikTok. A few things that happen as a result of all this and things that I think are 0.98

00:07:04.740 probably the worst things to encounter is, you know, decision fatigue. That's a fancy word of saying,

00:07:11.440 like being very indecisive. So every day now you make 1000s of tiny little choices. What do I want

00:07:17.440 to watch? What do I want to buy? What do I want to have for breakfast? What do I believe? Who do I

00:07:22.720 believe? But our brains are not really built for this level of micro decision making. This is not the

00:07:28.520 kind of decisions we had to make 100 years ago. The more options we have, the more fatigued you become.

00:07:34.060 This is why a lot of times with children, you don't give them, you know, 20 choices, you give them

00:07:39.380 two choices, right? Because our brains are just not meant to make choices out of all that kind of

00:07:44.720 stuff. Choices are generally, at least, you know, I would think in the terms of evolution, we're like

00:07:51.860 black or white, there was like two choices, right? But now we have 1000s. And of course, we get our

00:07:58.240 brain gets fatigued. And then we stop choosing with intention. So we just choose whatever's easiest,

00:08:03.960 you know, whatever's first, whatever it is, we kind of autopilot everything. And so you become

00:08:09.540 like a sleepwalker, you're just walking around mental pollution has made you a zombie, which is

00:08:14.960 funny, because we all called the people that were wearing the masks and all that kind of stuff,

00:08:18.060 zombies. And that's exactly what you are. You're literally, you know, living, breathing,

00:08:22.240 not dead yet, but possibly brain dead, zombie. And you know, another fucking thing that like, 1.00

00:08:29.800 really is, it's probably one of the worst things out there. And this definitely, you know, feeds into 0.99

00:08:36.500 people's insecurities and feeds into their, you know, the whole comparison thing, if you fall for

00:08:41.540 it. But it's the whole toxic positivity and, you know, performative wellness. And this is huge. Like

00:08:46.940 you have all these influencers who are constantly, you know, positive on there, they pretend that

00:08:52.000 they're rich, they take pictures beneath or, you know, in apartments that they're renting that they

00:08:55.820 don't own and, and cars and all this kind of stuff. And it's like, just to fake a smile, just to be

00:09:00.860 happy and show everybody how much better they have it than everybody else. And it's, it's creating like

00:09:06.400 a growing pressure to be constantly happy, grateful, and, you know, productive. And I don't disagree that

00:09:11.520 everybody should be productive in some way. But going back 100 years, 150 years, our production was,

00:09:18.300 you know, feeding our family, the farm and all that kind of stuff. But like,

00:09:21.180 after that, you know, it was being in the family, like spending time with your family,

00:09:25.300 creating a family, you know, having ancestors, that was kind of our, what we did to be productive.

00:09:30.080 But now it's like, if you're not doing 100 different things at once, you feel like you're

00:09:34.120 not being productive. It causes burnout, and it's silent burnout. And the toxic positivity is just

00:09:40.400 masking, you know, the, I guess you could say pain, if you want to get, you know, a little bit

00:09:45.380 sensitive about it. But it's just really masking your inner struggle that you need to stand on

00:09:50.240 business and sort it out. We're told to like manifest peace, when we're like drowning in chaos,

00:09:57.060 right. And I've always said you need to embrace the chaos to get through it, or the best way

00:10:01.460 over it is through it, or whatever that phrase is, you know, so you got to embrace the chaos.

00:10:09.120 I think this all started with the whole monetization, monetization of this kind of stuff,

00:10:13.940 like self care is even monetized, right. And so people have this, you know, desire to the

00:10:20.280 oppression Olympics, right. Because the more oppression points you have, the more engagement 0.88

00:10:23.980 you get on social media, the more you earn. And it's like a vicious cycle, the more lazy you are,

00:10:28.600 you know what I mean? And it just goes around and around. And I really think if I was to change

00:10:32.900 things, I would definitely remove that kind of shit. Like I would not be monetizing unproductive 0.98

00:10:37.600 things. YouTube is a great, YouTube rumble, whatever is a great thing for information. I

00:10:42.460 think if people are sharing information, if they're teaching people stuff, if you're teaching

00:10:45.940 people how to do life skills, but for people who are just showing their life, and it's a performative 0.56

00:10:51.100 shit, they should not be monetized for this. Because again, it creates that whole cycle of learned 0.67

00:10:56.200 helplessness, I guess you could say. And finally, the one of the things and honestly, this is the one I

00:11:01.580 suffer from the most is the loss of silence and stillness. I can't even remember the last time I was

00:11:06.780 able to sit still without like, frantically like tapping my leg or, you know, getting distracted.

00:11:12.800 I can't go to a baseball game, like a live baseball game or a live hockey game or something and enjoy it

00:11:18.680 because I get distracted by everybody around me because people are constantly getting up, I hear

00:11:22.800 noises, and I just can't focus anymore. And I used to be able to focus on one thing at a time.

00:11:28.080 And it's just it's gone. Once silence used to be natural, like it was, you know, something that

00:11:35.180 everybody got to experience on a regular basis. And now it's awkward, like even me, I have trouble

00:11:40.820 sitting with silence, I have trouble, I want to fill the silence, because I feel like, I don't know, I

00:11:47.400 just feel like there just can't be silence that there if there's silence or something wrong. But you know,

00:11:51.820 without silence, realistically, you can't reflect on, you know, anything really, without stillness, you can't

00:11:58.600 feel like I know, a lot of times, I can't feel a lot of different things, because I'm just constantly

00:12:03.100 thinking about the next thing. So you really need to get that stillness back. And you know,

00:12:08.000 without personal space, your soul, it can't speak to you, it can't heal. And our souls are broken.

00:12:14.500 I've said this before, or my soul is broken, I think a lot of people, our souls are broken because

00:12:18.720 of the last, you know, primarily, I want to say it was the last 10 years, 15 years, things have gotten

00:12:24.560 really bad. But it's really been a longer period than that. You know, mental pollution, it really does

00:12:30.700 rob us of a sacred space where, you know, we could have insight and clarity and maybe some inner

00:12:35.740 peace. So I mean, mental pollution is real, but it's not irreversible. I do like a lot of the

00:12:41.940 movements that are going on, especially return to the land, where, you know, it's just that you're

00:12:46.520 returning to the land. And it's not to say that you don't have any internet access, but you are

00:12:50.460 actually doing something productive outside, getting away from, you know, that brain fucking rot that is 0.95

00:12:57.440 constantly exposed to, you know, you got to disconnect to reconnect and choose what enters 0.97

00:13:03.340 your mind, try to find some stillness, it's all easier said than done. Our minds have become like

00:13:08.820 landfills. I know that I get burnout a lot, because my mind becomes like literally a landfill, a dumping

00:13:14.320 ground of everybody else's problems. And not just I mean, people I know, but like problems that I read

00:13:19.560 about on the internet and stuff like that. So we really need to kind of get away from that. But who knows?

00:13:25.400 I mean, who knows how things are going to go. But I think in order to win, especially if we want to get

00:13:30.780 our, you know, white utopia back, we really need to step a little bit away from this, get back to 1.00

00:13:36.660 community, heal our souls, you know, fill our brains with, you know, useful information again, and hopefully,

00:13:45.100 it gives us the advantage over the enemy.

postyX - June 20, 2025

Mental Pollution is the real crisis

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