Now, identity politics has invaded nearly every aspect of people's lives and even the internet.

Especially the internet. The trend is from the internet to other aspects of life.

That's nitpicking, though. I absolutely concur with the sentiment. One additional benefit I have found from learning to think in the absence of outside input: waking up in the middle of the night ceases to be a problem. I still wake up regularly in the middle of the night, but there is no longer that associated anxiety that used to exist, that classic "keep you awake at night". Now when I am awake I allow my thoughts to wander and go where they will and eventually I fall asleep again. Much more fun than the feeling I used to have in the darkness that "my life is a disaster!" It was never true; the entire premise was false from the beginning; enough time in quiet contemplation of the phantom nature of thought cures it.