/lit/ - Literature

my younger brother considers himself a stoic
he read a bunch of books and at one point was heavy into marcus aurelius meditations.

my brother is an idiot neet with few social skills and very little going for him, if it wasnt for his mother taking care of him and then now the burden fell on me to take care of his lazy ass he would be in deeper shit than he is now.

i also know someone from the marines that considered himself a stoic, also read into the meditations and even did some presentations on the "benefits" of stoicism.

he got kicked out of the marines for drinking and driving, kept up with him on facebook for a bit and he appears to be lying through his teeth about how his life is going well, his mother reached out to me one day telling me how he isnt doing anything with his life, and she suspects him from suffering from ptsd.
which cant be true because he never deployed.

lastly the only other person i know who claims stoicism is an exe's cousin, she was 22 when i met her, had never held down a job, barely made it through highschool, had no plans for college but was clearly a "smart" girl. she would talk to you about philosphy and random "intellectual" subjects till your ears fall off. she considered herself an "autodidac"? and genuinly belived she was too good for a formal education since its just a piece of paper. if you can envision an unhealthily skinny white girl that doesn't take care of herself, peach fuzz all over her face, fuzzy arms, smelling like old fish and dirty teeth/bad breath. its her.
even after a few years my ex and i are still friendly her cousin is not doing anything with her life and is essentially a female neet parasite.

given my experiences with stoics, im going to assume everyone who claims to be a stoic is just a parasite and a neet.

which is interesting because when i read into it, this isn't really the ideology of stoicism.

but it seems to be the people it attracts.

fucking parasites.