@Gotterdammerung@glitch.social
Post #2382345
2026-05-07 17:09 UTC
#Stoicism is the preferred philosophy of empires, corporations & dying fathers who think affection is a clerical error. It teaches the poor to confuse endurance with virtue. The ideal Stoic citizen is a guy being slowly crushed by a marble column who apologizes for inconveniencing the architecture.
"Control what you can control!" says the billionaire on a podcast, just before lobbying against your healthcare.
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@Gotterdammerung@glitch.social 2026-05-07 17:11
The Romans adored Stoicism cuz it transformed suffering into etiquette. Why revolt when you can journal? Why drag the aristocracy into the street when you can simply reframe your anguish as a failure of perspective? Rome discovered the first luxury sedative: a moral composure for people trapped beneath the wheel.