Without a doubt. Hence the need for a healthy middle ground, which will always require the ability to exist within the dialectic tension of seeming opposites. A skill sorely lacking in the world.
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Most people got to choose with whom/where to ride this thing out, if they were paying any attention at all Stoicism is great, but it's great because it's aligned on not taking any of this too seriously, expecting linear trajectories. But at the end of the day, it's a pit stop
The stoics were pretty much spot-on for their time and place; they were a weird kind of semi-rockstar, and being a rockstar was not ideal it meant one moment you were gathering crowds and the next you were banished to a barren island and then you were raising the emporer's son
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Nowadays, the list of things that get you banished is relatively small & people still live like they do because gathering information is scary if it's not play — a thing they've forgotten Take it from someone in lockdown in a chapel full of ducks & moths — option-space is big
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