I chose the title of this article not because I don't care about anything, but because I am learning to separate out what is important in my life from all of the noise.

I love politics and debate almost as much as I love history and metaphysics. Let's face it: there is a great big world out there and lots of room for discovery and discussion. After having spent much of my childhood held back by ignorant parents and the public educational system, I don't like having limits placed on my personally inquisitive nature or search for knowledge.

But, how much is enough? On the one hand, there is the old saying "the more you know the more you realize you don't know." The more I read about and studied different subjects, the more I realized there was to the story. At some point, trying to get all the facts about something becomes a distraction and begins to look a little like an obsession.

While I dealt with the Internal Revenue Service for several years, I went back and read historical versions of many "current" documents. So much was I obsessed with finding out the IRS's weak-spots, I understood why lawyers have a certain arrogance when it comes to the law. I understood because I possessed a knowledge that few citizens possessed about tax law and how it should be applied.

What did that knowledge get me? Nothing. It didn't help me reduce my tax bill (not that I was making much as a retail manager), but it did give me lots of frustration once I understood that the power of law is not in the text but in its application. The IRS cared far less than I did, so we butted heads for a few years. It didn't matter that I was right and could prove I was right. When a government agency gets so big that it decides whether or not it cares anymore about its own rules, it is going to stop listening to the voice of the common citizen in order to further its own survival.

It probably doesn't help that the average citizen only hears about people being put in jail for questioning IRS "authorities" and that the "courts have held" has become the equivalent of "because I said so".

But, you know what? I don't care (and haven't for several years now). My mission in this lifetime is not IRS reform or fighting government corruption, so all of that time I spent butting heads with perhaps the most hated government agency was misdirected. I won't say "wasted" because I have learned a valuable lesson from my actions and won't make that same mistake again.

(If anyone decides that this is their mission in life, I will direct you to Google Larken Rose and read his detailed report or watch his video. It will open your eyes.)

Anyway, what I have learned is that we must find for ourselves what we came down here to learn and remain true to learning it without being distracted by causes that are not ours. My hope by sharing this article with you is that you realize your life path before you go too far down someone else's and lose valuable years you could have spent on your own goals.