The basic principles of Stoicism.

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we are being bombarded with media programming us to embrace base emotional respsonses, and reject considered thought and calm.

Finding nemo, finding dory, captain marvel, to pull three off the top of my head. "embrace your animal side". demonise the evolved.

I agree with the Apathy/Nirvana analogy, although They are not the same, once You've quested for Nirvana and decided to return to the human world, Apathy becomes a great tool.