Basically under sufficient privilege a stoic posture is either naïveté or hypocrisy. If my adversity is trivial, handling it with stoic grace says nothing about whether I’m more moral/stronger etc than someone throwing screaming tantrums under far greater stressors.
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Replying to @vgr @alexkozak and
Of course not! I think I see the divergence here. Yes, virtue ethics where virtue = bearing something stoically, means virtue is more available to some than others. I guess I just mentally filter that stuff out & try to take the good bits about understanding scope of action.
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Replying to @mrgunn @alexkozak and
In some ways it seems like a category error to call stoicism an ideology or ethic at all under modern conditions. It’s closer to a consumption aesthetic, like minimalism. A performed aesthetic of bearing, composure etc. I honestly find it hard to take seriously. Reads larp to me.
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"Stoic LARP w/ Venkatesh Rao" This sounds like an amazing Stoa session to have. ;)
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Replying to @BeyondTheCenter @peternlimberg and
Peter keeps trying to rope me into his Stoa thing. I refuse on principle to participate in anything that has a legible position in the culture wars
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Replying to @vgr @BeyondTheCenter and
It's not really that legible, though, is it? I mean, don't let the name throw you off, look at the programming. I've had to bail on sessions that got too deep into woo there, so you might be surprised.
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Replying to @mrgunn @BeyondTheCenter and
To be fair I’m basically saying no to almost everything these days
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Replying to @vgr @BeyondTheCenter and
I was just surprised to hear you say it has a legible position. What's your read?
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Yeah man, the Stoa having a legible position in the culture war seems like wild misread. I imagine you have not visited... yet!!!
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Nobody is legible to themselves. Everybody thinks they’ve been wildly misread. That’s why there’s a culture war at all.
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In fairness, if you Stoic LARP really hard, you get culture war vision.
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Replying to @peternlimberg @vgr and
That's more kayfabe than LARP, though, isn't it?
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