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+I mentioned in a recent post that we often spend a good bit of time doing nothing. In that post it's staring out at the bay, but there have been other things we've stared at -- the pine forests of Colorado, the woods of Mount Shasta, the deserts of the southwest, the Sierra Nevada and so on. And naturally we stare at campfires quite a bit too.
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+But that whole thing is sort of lie. Staring at nothing isn't actually doing nothing. It just happens to be something our culture doesn't consider valuable and so you and I casually dismiss it as "doing nothing". But the more I started to do it, the more I realized that just sitting, "doing nothing" is actually perhaps the most active thing you can do.
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+and observing nature is not nothing. It is in fact everything.
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+Which is to say all the things we as a culture don't want to talk about right now.
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+You and I find ourselves born into a declining culture. A culture that is what Spengler would call the end of an abstraction phase that will soon start swinging toward 
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+There's a lot of windbags out there criticizing social media for fostering narcissism, consumer culture, and intellectual bullying, but none of them seems to have any good ideas on how we can counteracting these forces beyond turning off the TV and internet. That works, especially TV, you should throw your TV out the highest window you can find (making sure there's no one below), but the internet has its upsides and I like using it. It's currently the best was I know of to communicate with large numbers of people 
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+is a bit more complex than that. If you want to still use social media, try first developing humility. One easy way to do that is to create an active practice cultivating humility, for example, pending time in quiet observance of nature. Spend some time realizing that most of life care not at all what humans think, say or do, is helpful in 
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+seems like it would require an active practice.
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+spending time in quiet observance of nature is one practice that helps me. I would be curious as to your opinion of which habits of religion or culture–intentional or not–led to greater humility.