Oops! I accidentally hit the send button. I wasn’t finished. “to come to grip with the feelings I never learned to express growing up stoic.”… I meant to say. In other words, I had to learn to overcome my stoic upbringing. That’s why I don’t accept the terms “stoic” as a healthy human race way of being.
Don’t get me wrong, growing up in a stoic household served me extremely well - was absolutely key to my learning to embrace, humanistic values over racial values. Still, I eventually did have to through a long, therapeutic developmental process come to grip with the feelings I never learned to express growing up stoic.
Yeah those are simplistic but I suppose applicable criticisms. I think they are more appropriate to popular soy boy Stoics in Silicon Valley.
If I was born Stoic without never having been Christian or political or nationalist, I suppose I would bow down to the coconuts of Stoic Island. I mean, honestly it was because I couldn't sympathize with the foolishness of the rash of defreindings over Trump that Stoicism started to make more sense. In otherwords, I had a surfeit of public sentiment and motivation, and I was shocked by political duplicity and helplessness. What I saw was the death of civility. How could I let that go. If I didn't care, I wouldn't write. There's no control in my sort of writing. I don't expect it.
At any rate. I'm more concerned with the limits of Stoicism as I wrote about here. https://mdcbowen.substack.com/p/the-pessimists-edge Plus, Marcus Aurelius was an emperor. His kind of Stoicism underlies tremendous power. That doesn't apply to us peasants.
Oops! I accidentally hit the send button. I wasn’t finished. “to come to grip with the feelings I never learned to express growing up stoic.”… I meant to say. In other words, I had to learn to overcome my stoic upbringing. That’s why I don’t accept the terms “stoic” as a healthy human race way of being.
I like the term “human race man.“ I have problems with Stoic. Again, stoic means…https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-three-minute-therapist/202301/a-critique-of-stoicism
Don’t get me wrong, growing up in a stoic household served me extremely well - was absolutely key to my learning to embrace, humanistic values over racial values. Still, I eventually did have to through a long, therapeutic developmental process come to grip with the feelings I never learned to express growing up stoic.
Yeah those are simplistic but I suppose applicable criticisms. I think they are more appropriate to popular soy boy Stoics in Silicon Valley.
If I was born Stoic without never having been Christian or political or nationalist, I suppose I would bow down to the coconuts of Stoic Island. I mean, honestly it was because I couldn't sympathize with the foolishness of the rash of defreindings over Trump that Stoicism started to make more sense. In otherwords, I had a surfeit of public sentiment and motivation, and I was shocked by political duplicity and helplessness. What I saw was the death of civility. How could I let that go. If I didn't care, I wouldn't write. There's no control in my sort of writing. I don't expect it.
At any rate. I'm more concerned with the limits of Stoicism as I wrote about here. https://mdcbowen.substack.com/p/the-pessimists-edge Plus, Marcus Aurelius was an emperor. His kind of Stoicism underlies tremendous power. That doesn't apply to us peasants.