Marcus Aurelius's case was rather peculiar. He acted against the slogan of stoics that you can't assume absolute power and still be a stoic, at best you can be a gadfly for the emperor.
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Yet he also showed that a person in charge of a nation can still be a philosopher and bring philosophical, ethical, practical concerns into some sort of balance. But was he successful? No. Wars with Parthians and Germans made him to callous and compromising at the end.
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At the end, he was seen someone like Obama, a goodnatured person but subsumed by a corrupt system. He should have listened to Socrates that the job of the philosopher is to be a gadfly, a corruptor for the good and not a general or a king.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @QueenOfTheWilis and
He didn't listen to him though, di he? I for one am happy he didn't listen. Are you going to listen to Socrates all your life?
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Replying to @bopvangnon @QueenOfTheWilis and
Socrates is the only badass punk philosopher that ever was or ever will be. Look at what he did through his students and his well-curated death, he shook the foundations of the world as we know it. No emperor managed to have such a long-enduring legacy.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @bopvangnon and
What matters is not the grand plan, but to initiate a sustained chain reaction.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @bopvangnon and
When it comes to the spread and magnitude of ideas, do you go for a powder keg or do you go for a burning fuse the size of history?
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @QueenOfTheWilis and
Burning fuse but on a zero-point energy generator. Spread and magnitude of ideas shall be well preserved across the solar system at least. that's why I am into futurefunk of archives.
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Best leave the powder keg for the end. A burning fuse does the work for now, particularly if you show it to people and share its progression photos.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @QueenOfTheWilis and
You know our boi Elon is lurking around hereabouts, right. He shouldn't here this one. Powder keg offers myriad solutions, however, who is going to resolve the cat in the keg?
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