Making Things Go Away

The solution to making something go away is, mostly, to make it uninteresting or unimportant.

The problem with fighting something very aggressively is that (depending on how you do it) usually you end up making the subject very interesting. People are sooooo interested in Trump, or the government, or whatever, that they end up causing the whole subject to become VERY INTERESTING, which causes it to LIVE.

The way to fight something you believe is a societal ill is to simply make it become totally uninteresting to everybody, including the people involved in it. If nobody is interested in the thing, nobody will do it.

This is probably the answer to why some things that society tries to eliminate (like drugs, for example) have tended to become more prevalent VIA the mechanisms that have been used to try to get rid of them. I’m not saying that that’s why those things became popular in the first place. But I’m saying that once they were introduced into society, some groups made them VERY INTERESTING. Some people did this by fighting them the wrong way.

It’s not just fighting things that makes them interesting. Things become interesting in many ways. But I’m pointing out that if you want to eliminate something, and you’re fighting it, try to avoid fighting it in a way that makes the subject INTERESTING to people.