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The original formulation of "Politics is the mind killer", intuitively seems not as good as yours here. It seems that there are probably other mind-killers.
Can we think of specific one's that aren't well described as "politics" and have a mind-killing effect of a commensurate order of magnitude?
Is "mind-killing" somehow a better description of what politics does than, say, beginning deliberation by writing one's bottom line first?
Anything that people incorporate as part of their identity tends to generate the cluster of biases that we collectively label "mind-killer". Many of these (body image; musical taste; Kirk or Picard) aren't political issues in the mainstream, but almost all of them become political issues among interested parties; in fact, I'd say that a colloquial sense of "politics" is defined partly in terms of which issues invoke that sort of identification.
That seems right.