The Grill Pill

Matt's philosophy of disengaging (or decreasing engagement) in online discourse and focusing on practical application in the "real world".

## Quotes

> And the grilling can be whatever it is that's actually in your life that gives you a sense of satisfaction because all that energy you were expending and I was expending caring about the presidential election which like I said two terrible options like I said things might change Jesse Ventura runs and gets some gas, gets a little bit of tread in the tire and things keep getting worse but barring that. That is a sterile investment you're not going to get anything out anything in your nothing in your life is going to get better by focusing on the presidential election so grill instead and by that I mean focus on something in your life that brings meaning to it but that goes beyond the inter- that goes beyond just caring about the presidential election it goes broader to caring about politics insofar as your “caring about politics” is expressed by going online to talk about them to people and spend more likely to argue with people about them or to make fun of people about them and obviously this is *hilarious* coming from me because I'm one of the Pied Pipers that brought people onto these platforms.
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-Cushbomb, Grillpill: Explained

> Now going back with the same conditions, nothing's really changed, everything's been hardened there is no more growth there. There's only slow decay of your interest in politics. At the end of that hedonic treadmill you are “blackpilled” because it's like I don't get anything else out of this I don't get anything else out of “caring about politics”. And the only way you're gonna fight, but the thing is is that when you hear get off the internet it's terrifying because you still don't know what to do and so what am I gonna do sit here with my thoughts oh my god I'm gonna go insane.
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> Well that is where the “grill” part comes in I don't mean grill like in the sense necessarily of a Weber or or whatever. I mean look around you, find something that you are good at in some combination of talented at but also willing to keep trying and what that willing to keep trying is is the closer something is to you the easier it is to get you to do it. Like somebody says hand me a pencil you don't even think about it somebody says help me move you have to think about it for a while because physical exertion physical existence in spacetime is wearing. It wears on you if you are not centered basically and yet the way you center yourself is do something that you want to do. Like it's easier to move than it is to help someone move because it's your apartment and it's easier to move the pace. And the guys getting paid to move you it's harder for him because he's not doing what he wants to do. You got a move, it's your place so that is less alienated time and it's all about getting closer to your actual conditions.
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> So you might be terrified that you have nowhere to put all that political energy, that that sense of identity you've got from being a person with politics that were expressed on the Internet. If I can't express them on the internet I don't have these politics well even when you were expressing them on the Internet you really only had those politics to the degree that you acted on them off the Internet. And so what you do is you take that energy and you essentially have to depoliticize it. You have to recognize it as a drive to be, to feel useful to yourself not to society and not to your boss or anything which is like the micro propaganda version of the need to create to yourself first.
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> And so find something that is enjoyable to do but takes concentration and do it. It could be grilling delicious meats, whatever, it could be I saw a guy today is building, he's rebuilding a fucking, an arcade cabinet from the 80s. Whatever it is it needs to be something that you can focus your attention on completely in the here and now and get better at or complete something.
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> Gaming is the opposite of that. Gaming is just more of the Internet. Gaming is more offloading your need to be directly addressing your needs that are in front of you into a psychic realm where they could only ever fall down the hedonic treadmill like your belief in politics did. Now gaming can't be done in the right frame of mind to be useful to be you know practice. But it cannot be, like, the fact gaming existed is a place for people to put their that alienation is one of the most counter-revolutionary things about American society like in broad structure. Just the fact that there with the internet and with computers and with gaming there's so much place to dump your excess and unexamined alienation that it really undermines your need to address the alienation fundamentally by asking what do I do and so you start by focusing on the here and now.
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-Cushbomb, Grillpill: Explained