Just started reading this. Marc seems like a pretty solid and grounded dude who tried to not get his position get to his head. Why did people like Andrew Tate and all harp on stoicism as a sort of superhuman ability you have to have to become rich and famous when the man who is the poster boy of stoicism had to constantly remind himself of his mortality?
>>25403309epicureanism is better
>writing about how nothing matters and he's totally above it all while his wife gets pounded by a gladiator
>>25403315You and your cuckold fantasy man.
>>25403313>epicureanismHow so?
>>25403320I have a voyeurism fetish, the thinking man's fetish
Reading his diary, Marcus Aurelius makes being a Roman emperor seem like the kind of banal corpo gig that petty people in those jobs by default take way too seriously. And broicism influencers seem to hold him in awe because he was an emperor.
Nobody understands stoicism.
>>25403325Wouldn't it be a 'watching man's fetish' instead?
>>25403333FUNNY GUY, RIGHT HERE
>>25403327>being a Roman emperor seem like the kind of banal corpo gig that petty people in those jobs by default take way too seriously.Isn't that just bureaucracy in general?
>>25403341Yes, but we regularly kid ourselves that it’s different at the top
Just another victim of people being identity hungry fags about everything.I swear it's so bad online but it seems like people in real life aren't so obsessed. Strange.
>>25403309It's funny cause the Cynics taught the same things as the Stoics, there's very little difference between them in the right way to live virtuously. They just focused on different details. For the internet to have latched onto Aurelius just shows how illiterate they are.
>>25403329Kek
OH NO I HAVE BEEN BORN INTO BEING THE EMPEROR OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE WOE IS ME YOU MUST ACCEPT YOUR STATION IN LIFE GOYIM
