You know, in dealing with life, as with any specific physical challenge, it is helpful to have a variety of emotive tools. One of these, I will suggest is at times passive resignation.
This is, perhaps, perilously close to Learned Helplessness, but what I would suggest is that such helplessness exists at a preconscious, physical level, whereas passive resignation amounts to active acceptance of things we cannot control.
Wisdom–and you know the quote I would but won’t reference–consists in knowing what is needed, when.
And in large measure, wisdom is learning over time what tools to use when, and in continually enlarging your tool box, which would include among other things state management, the skillful use of words, physical health and ability, and the ability to understand people and their motivations to either manipulate or empathize with them.
Manipulation: it has a negative connotation, but in dealing with truly stupid people is it not a vastly preferable alternative to confrontation and conflict? This seems to me to be true. Of course it is the rationalization our Plague Lords–read that in at least two ways–have chosen to justify what they did and are doing to us.
The ten thousand things rise and fall without ceasing. What is right today may be wrong tomorrow. What makes sense today may be stupid tomorrow. And nothing is more likely to be stupid than the Long, Large Plan, when concocted by people unfamiliar with peace and who hate themselves and everyone else.