powerlessness over all but a tenth of a percent
99.9% of what goes on in one’s life is actually none of one’s business, with the .1% under one’s control consisting mostly of the option to accept or deny one’s inevitable powerlessness over the other 99.9%
Context
The White Flag arithmetic of surrender: 99.9% of life is none of your business, and the sliver you do control is mostly just the choice to accept or deny your powerlessness over the rest. The First-Step doctrine rendered as a formula so total it turns Gately's forehead purple to parse — the powerlessness that is the whole hinge of the Program's epistemology.