Why Be Mindful of All the Distractions?

When you’re distracted, you become disempowered and cede control of your life.

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It’s easy to get overwhelmed. The biggest downside of the information age, the internet, and social media, is how much junk is out there to distract you.

This, coupled with the inherent fear-base of our society, is being increasingly weaponized to cause chaos, misguidance, and disempower the masses. It’s gotten to the point where there are distractions from the distractions.

All of this is designed to move you further and further away from self-awareness. Why? Because the more those in power can keep average people off balance, the more they can influence and control the masses in abstract ways.

The entire MAGA movement is one giant distraction. It focuses entirely on blaming this, that, or the other thing, and taking ZERO responsibility or accountability for anything. The leaders play on the fears, hopes, and dreams of people in subtle and unsubtle ways. That’s why they treat “wokeness” as a bad thing. Because being awake, aware, and “woke” means you can see where responsibility and accountability should be.

The biggest issue with this is finding the middle ground between knowing and becoming overwhelmed.