On political stability
Student:
The world feels politically unstable.
Everywhere there is division, anger, and distrust.
How does one make the world more politically stable?
Master:
First, remove the fantasy that stability is created by systems.
It is not.
Systems only amplify
the psychological state of the people who use them.
Student:
Then what causes instability?
Master:
Unregulated fear.
When fear enters a population,
it demands certainty.
Certainty creates ideology.
Ideology creates enemies.
This cycle does not require bad people.
It only requires frightened ones.
Student:
So better leaders would fix it?
Master:
Leaders are reflections, not origins.
A fearful population produces polarising leaders.
A steady population makes them unnecessary.
Politics follows psychology,
not the other way around.
Student:
Then what can an individual actually do?
Master:
Stop exporting your inner instability
into collective spaces.
Most political speech is not an attempt to solve problems.
It is an attempt to discharge anxiety.
This increases noise, not order.
Student:
Are you saying people should disengage?
Master:
No.
I am saying they should engage
only from steadiness.
A person who is internally unstable
will vote, argue, post, and protest
in ways that increase instability —
even if their cause is just.
Student:
That feels uncomfortable.
Master:
Truth often is.
Ask yourself this before every political expression:
“Am I trying to contribute clarity —
or relieve my own tension?”
Only the first builds stability.
Student:
But how does one become steady
in such an environment?
Master:
By refusing to let politics become identity.
When beliefs become identity,
disagreement becomes threat.
And threat cannot coexist with stability.
Student:
So stability begins before policy?
Master:
Always.
Stable societies are composed of people
who can tolerate uncertainty
without demanding enemies.
Who can disagree
without needing dominance.
Who can care
without needing righteousness.
Student:
This feels slow compared to what’s happening.
Master:
Instability spreads quickly.
Stability compounds quietly.
The world does not need louder opinions.
It needs more people
who are difficult to destabilise.
Student:
And that changes politics?
Master:
It changes everything politics depends on.
When enough individuals stop reacting from fear,
political systems recalibrate naturally.
This is how stability has always been created.
Not through force.
Not through control.
But through regulated humans
occupying public space.
That is the work.
