Waves of inconsequential ephemera are launched like mental missiles. In conversation, online—everywhere that communication is possible. One Current Thing after another. A few days of hysteria, and another Current Thing thrusts it aside.
Don’t take the bait. The Current Thing is neither bitter nor sweet, neither right nor wrong — these judgments reveal who you are. The Current Thing is a random social hallucination — or a deliberate effort at manipulation.
- Random? Why add energy to a random process?
- Deliberate? Why, by supporting or opposing The Current Thing, further someone else’s efforts to acquire power or wealth? Isn’t your own life more important to you?
Point out The Current Thing out for what it is: a fart in a windstorm. Trivial. Without substance. “Ha! Yet Another Current Thing!” Pointing and naming removes its mystery, just as turning on the light banishes shadows and reveals what was hidden in darkness.
Then ignore it. Employ the Golden Key (per Emmet Fox): stop thinking about the problem, and think about God.
If there is value in The Current Thing, time will reveal it.
Postscript. Inspired by this tweet:
Briefly opposing the current thing during its short period of relevance is just playing your own small role in the ecosystem in which it has successfully become the apex predator — you’re the thing it gnaws on
https://twitter.com/webdevmason/status/1584212839341772805?s=46&t=SVt1bUUzw9YqgGL_9c8rvQ