Politics. It first caught my interest in my twenties as a way how to improve the world. I still remember back in those days trying to keep up with all the political developments. Figuring out who's right, who's wrong and what should be done..
But as I grew older, I find out in Shakespeare's words that something is rotten in the state of Denmark. I just couldn't put my finger on it. Growing up in socialist Czechoslovakia, I had a natural distrust for the state. But at that time I still thought it can somehow be improved.
It wasn't until the time I've dived into rabbit holes of health, finance and who's really running the world, that I really started loosing any belief that the politics can be improved.
At that point I took a simple logical position — if something is terrible (as the state definitely is), let's try to have as little of it as possible. This philosophy is called libertarianism. And I was happy with it for a long time. It wasn't until I pick up a book called For a New Liberty by Murray Rothbard that my view changed for one final time.
The main argument is that having just a little state is still permitting evil to happen on the daily basis. Sooo ... to stop supporting and having evil, the solution is not to have any state at all.
At the beginning it was hard to accept. Because we are being told everywhere that the state is necessary for our survival. That's why I first accepted this philosophy on a moral level = I do not want to support evil. Period. It doesn't matter the size of it. Then learning more about it, I find out that it works MUCH better than the state ever will.
This philosophy is called voluntarism. It's based on natural law, and it basically says that we don't have any right to personally or politically transgress against other people or their property. Apart from this, we can do anything we want! I mean, imagine the amount of freedom and simplicity this offers!
If it's freedom and happiness that you seek, choose voluntarism as your philosophy and try to live up to it in all the areas of your life. It won't always be easy, but it's gonna be a fun and fulfilling life.