The Substack Experience: Abundance Year Episode 1884

Full Metal Ox Day 1819
Saturday 21, February 2026
Abundance Year Episode 1884
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Replacing an entrenched mindset with a better one.

Today's Episode:

The Trap of Reaction (Preview Segment)

This is where the transition gets dangerous. The human mind abhors a vacuum. When you leave a rigid mindset, the temptation is not to find truth, but to find the opposite of what you left.

If the Church told you that the world began six thousand years ago, the reactive mind rushes to worship Richard Dawkins with the same fervor it once reserved for the Pope. If the military told you to trust the government blindly, the reactive mind assumes every single headline is a lie. If your parents watched Fox News, you start getting all your information from a TikTok influencer with a ring light and a grudge.

This is not freedom. This is just wearing the enemy's clothes inside out. You are still letting the old structure dictate your terms. They said "up," you say "down." They said "white," you say "black." But you are still playing their game of chess; you just switched sides.

The Architecture of the New World

So how do you build a better mindset without simply building the old one in reverse? How do you replace the fortress with a home?

The first step is accepting intellectual humility. In your old system, you had all the answers (or the institution did). In the new space, you have to become comfortable with the phrase, "I don't know, and that might be okay." Leaving mainstream media doesn't mean you suddenly know the truth; it means you admit that the truth is harder to find than a thirty-second segment. It means reading three sources, including the ones that bore you.

The second step is curating your loneliness. When you leave a tribe, you are statistically likely to join another one quickly to stop the pain. The better mindset resists this. It understands that the period of wandering in the desert is necessary. It is in the desert that you discover what you actually believe, not just what you were told to believe. It means finding friends who don't need you to agree with them on everything to break bread with you.

The third step is building a practice, not a doctrine. A veteran might replace the structure of the barracks with the discipline of a morning run or a woodworking shop. The former evangelical might replace Sunday service with a Sunday hike—a ritual of awe without the liturgy. The media skeptic might replace the nightly news with deep-dive history books, gaining context instead of clicks. A doctrine tells you what to think. A practice gives you something to do while you figure out what to think.
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