Is Life too Hard? Lets make it easy.
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Struggling with life’s big questions? Stoicism offers a path to happiness and freedom.
In this video, I simplify Stoicism into three core principles:
1. Perception
2. Action
3. Will
Inspired by Ryan Holiday's "The Daily Stoic," learn how this ancient philosophy can transform your life today.
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Learned a new word: stoicism
very good vid thx a lot!
Stoicism doesn't make life easier. Just like hedonism doesn't actually mean you live life to the fullest.
Stoicism is like gouging your eyes out and then proclaiming: I see nothing wrong
It's actually pretty stupid and empowers the ruling class. Stop with this nonsense
I see where you are coming from but there is flaws in every philosophy, its our job as the listeners to absorb the good and leave behind the bad and kind of create our own mini philosophy for our own use. I believe there is a lot of good in Stoicicm but in our very very modern world there are some flaws which I have left behind. I appreciate you watching, if you wanna continue this conversation feel free to reply.
@@MRbookworm Look, the reason why I have such a big issue with stoicism, besides it being a very male-centric philosophy (that encourages men to not discuss their feelings :) because of course, it's such an old way of thinking it has little to no regard for modern sensibilities when it comes to people and life), is that it discourages complaining.
Yes, one should be in control of their thoughts, somewhat... but enduring the world's shit is bad. Because if they see you're a-ok with it, they'll keep pushing you. It's normal to want to scream right now. It's normal to do so, even... everything is burning, at different rates, but burning all the same. We don't have the time for "calming the storm inside". We very much need to set it loose and take back control of democracy and our world, before it's too late, and it might already be too late... Marx didn't understand people really suck at rising up in revolution... Lenin did, but he didn't understand the old world will stubbornly cling onto power with all its might, and he wasn't the best human around... and he didn't kill Stalin. That last bit might have been his worse mistake. Hegel didn't know how to write plainly, and wasn't concerned enough with the applicability of his theory. But the ancient world's thoughts don't quite translate very well into our times.
Yes, if you decide to get used to the whip and think it doesn't hurt, you might have a somewhat easier time than those who don't, but that's treating symptoms, not the problem.
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An important part of stoicism is assessing what IS and what ISN'T in our control first. The problem from this point that leads to your point is how easily people throw up their hands and proclaim helplessness, which is a learned response so i can't fully blame those people tbh. Empowerment is the solution as a word, or maybe cooperation, but anyway, stoicism isn't about relinquishing all control and just accepting. Nah, that's just what people are already doing, and stoicism is just about taking the L's more gracefully which admittedly is only half of the puzzle.
It isn't enough alone.
The way you write is very nice. You speak with a lot of clarity which I really appreciate and the points you make are correct in some sense but I would like to make a few points.
1. I believe Stoicicm is for women as much as it is for men. In my video I talk about action, something that everyone should strive for to be a good person. Those 4 traits were wisdom, self-control, justice and courage. Being a good human isn't reserved for men but for women too. Gratitude isn't reserved for men either. I believe everyone should be grateful for our lives as we take many things for granted and always want more. By wanting more we give power to others.
2. A man who suppresses their emotion is a dangerous man in my opinion. These are the types of people to commit crimes because of all the built up anger inside them but that doesn't mean they were being stoic. The anger that they were feeling was most likely from something out of their control and they proceed to blame or complain to resolve the issue but it doesn't. A very famous quote from Marcus is "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts". If your goal is to spread kindness and only think good of others than you will live a very happy life. Unfortunately for people who complain or suppress their emotions they are constantly thinking about how others think of them or how unlucky they are which reduces their happiness and overall quality of their life.
3. Calming the storm inside is how we can "take back control of democracy". If we are always complaining or quick to anger how can we reason with the "elites". They want to retain control so they try to make us emotional and angry to cloud our judgement. If we are too focused on being angry at others then we wont have time to address the issues the elites have caused. The solution is for everyone to ground themselves. Question why they are so angry at something? Why do I complain about everything I do not have control over? If everyone did this then we would have the clarity to realise the mistakes the elites have made and "take back control of democracy". Just my opinion thou.
@@MRbookworm fair enough. But it does feel like there's a thing missing. Self-control is great and all, but it alone doesn't quite paint a complete picture, does it? We'll still be left with some existential issues at the end of the day without Nietzsche and Camus, and a lot of the job of identifying the issues with capitalism was done by Marx (albeit somewhat natively when it comes to the solutions part). There's also the issue of... practicality. It's very hard, if not impossible to not be overwhelmed by the amount of stuff going on, from unfair taxation to the failure of the pension system to the deconstruction of civil rights... And where I live, in Romania, well... our political scene is nothing short of a bad sitcom. And the issue with what I've described is simple: "calm and steady" won't really fix it. It can't. They like it at the negotiations table. They like peaceful protests because they can ignore them without repercussions, and people have been sedated by the 9 to 5 and the mundane concerns of... rent and saving up for a house and having kids... I believe, and I hate it has come to this, that violence might be the only venue left for exercising the power of the many we supposedly have. Will the stoic be able to identify this ultimatum when he comes face to face with it?
Also, watch Abigail Thorne's video about stoicism when you have time. She's a lot more articulate in her criticisms and points. I'm a programmer, not a philosopher. I dabble in philosophy to try and make sense of a chaotic, unreasonable world. It feels improper to not rage like a D&D barbarian right now.
Also, I apologise for being so hot headed previously. I've seen some people describe stoicism as some sort of solution for everything, and I have come here with assumptions and pre-existing anger. I guess that sort of makes your point for you, but still give that video a watch