time always enters the pciture in the end

Charles Dickens talked to himself. Time (still we cannot define it) was a problem for him. He begged off meeting with a particular person because knowledge of even a short moment sacrificed for someone else's benefit interfered with all his other ostensibly free moments leading up to the meeting. Men have rifle like focus whereas women often seem to favor shotguns. Point for me is that time maybe hard to define but it is more important when we order it for our personal schedules. Time itself alone may be an illusion since it only exists in a comparative state. So if I use my time to solve problems, I may think it is well spent but one has to figure out what my serious problems are first, which forces me to arrange my time backwards. The trap here presenting itself is spending a questionable amount of singular time observing. The title for this post comes from the film Beat the Devil (1953)  first production by Bogart free of the star system.

Speaking from principles rather than personalities.

One should remind themselves periodically of the simple fact that all politics is gossip primarily because people talk as specifics. They talk, as we all do in the greater part, for their own benefit. This is true even in attempts to persuade. Persuasion is about talking ourselves into ourselves being persuaded rather than others. Similarly, anger signals one's weakness in believing it. 

Believing is not easily accomplished as some tend to think Believing is not agreement or going along with someone else. It is achieved by repetition, reading repeatedly, until it is down into one's spirit. I am nagged by a sense of lack that I do not know of another method. Repetition is used in forced indoctrination as well. We  have to think this is all too mechanical and should not be. .