Thanks for the new session!
“Explosive” … sounds somewhat ominous. Plenty of potential in this regard, I guess - Middle East, Ukraine, Taiwan, or any other hotspot, take your pick. Or “explosive” could be also used in a less literal sense, as the economy “blowing up” etc. Fun times!
The way I explain this to myself is … and I might be wrong: Not mentally blocking leads to emotional arousal, and thus to a sympathetic stimulation, aka stress, anger, increase in blood pressure and heart rate etc. Mental blocking achieves the opposite, the balance between the symathetic and the parasympathetic shifts towards the parasympathetic - hence more acetylcholine. Maybe too simplistic? Dunno!
I think at the end of the day this is a matter of attitude. Life only sucks if you let it be like that. For me it basically comes down to one central question (and that may be different for you) - fear of death. Once you overcome that, things start to look different. Sure, there is always another aspect to dying than just me - those we leave behind, that we feel need us in the here and now. That certainly is a difficult thing to reconcile, but maybe comes down to the same issue.
Reminds me of a saying from Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, where the Aiel refer to dying as “waking from the dream” - just the opposite of what we think dying is. For us, life is ‘real’ and death and the afterlife the nebulous ‘illusion’.
I myself have somewhat reduced my perusal of news social channels, like Telegramm. I still follow SOTT on a daily basis, as well as Telegram, but I don’t get obsessively immersed into it, following events on a hour by hour basis. I keep abreast, but somewhat emotionally distanced, as far as this is possible (which in the case of mass slaughter is not an easy task). Instead I focus on ‘real” things, creating, tinkering, researching things I am interested in for the sake of interest etc.