Cultural hibernation: read books from your preferred milieu you’ve been piling up, produce less art
Economic hibernation: draw down savings and work less for $$
Political hibernation: ??
What “saved political fat” thing would you draw down? What labor mode cut back?
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Nihilism. The ability to sit back and let it all slide consumes my reserves of nihilism.
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Ah, political influence is measured by your impact in the social medium, and do you don't "build it up" by withdrawal. Rather, you socialize & engage with those who can give you stored potential influence (in the form of money, invites to parties, betrothal of children, etc).
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So it's more like "whoring yourself out for things you don't believe in", to build up influence that you can later apply to strategic objectives.
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It depends on how exactly one engages in politics, or defines political activity. Maybe something like Lenin's exile in Switzerland when he spent time reading and writing theory
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Political hibernation: Move all socmedia bookmarks to a separate device, less people-thinking, more working through your project todo list.
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Rely more on the image your tribe/clique/outfit projects to facilitate preferred interactions and signal incidentally. Probably works best for made men because other people need to work to maintain group membership.
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Maybe best metaphor would be the things we do to keep ourselves and those in our in-groups centered when we’re out of power. Maintain faith on the one hand, stoke resentments on the other.
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