QuoteAt what point is something important enough to care about, even if it's not in your control?For that you wanna go pure Advaita Vedanta. Once you get to the point of seeing the illusory nature of personal volition and responsibility you set the paddle down and relax, adrift on a shoreless sea.
QuoteFew people are at peace with having their taxes hiked up. Particularly when the taxes are used to fund something also not in their control that they don't agree with.Sharecropping, the landowner takes a cut. Ruled, the Monarch will have his share. Governed, the taxman will cometh. SHTF, the warlord will take what he needs. In simple terms, that's the nature of the social contract. Didn't you say something upthread about life not being fair?
I am at peace.