Ineffable Ontological Detanglement .: Introspective Assistance & Mental Analysis Manual
Passive is not inherently dysfunctional. If you're forcing your passiveness or if your passiveness is hurting you, then it is dysfunctional. If a person genuinely doesn't care, you don't need to judge this person for not asserting or aggressing their every desire, Americans. If you can be assertive or aggressive in the moments you require being assertive or aggressive you're fine, if you can do it perfectly comfortably it's no problem to you at all whatsoever it feels just as comfortable as your baseline passive, you're a self actualized passive. You're within the best one.
The "I don't care" American ego battle moment. "Oh you don't care because you're scared? Because you're scared? Because you're weak?"
A lot of stoner types will try to educate you that passive is the only way to be, you need to smoke marijuana until you take a chill pill. And, in a lot of ways they're right, but, they're misinterpretating the feelings of marijuana. It doesn't want you to become the force of passive, overwhelm you with forced chill pill be really forcefully arrogant about it until somebody gets pissed off at you and gives you the opportunity to demonstrate your passiveness. It's just telling you to keep your shit in perspective and know what matters. It does not require you to become passive if you are not naturally capable of passive.