/lit/ - Literature

>>18416678
Redditors also breath oxigen.
Stop breathing you cuck

>>18416678
Because they're cucks and so was Marcus Aurelius

Why do 4tards like peepee so much?

>>18416691
Why don't you suck my cock butters?

>>18416678
Because stoicism is life-denying, that was Nietzsche's critique of it.
Reddit is full of normies who in general have no aspirations beyond being content consoomers who are constantly sucked into the next manufactured fad, whether it be 'i fucking love science', elon musk's epic dank memes xD, or belle delphine etc. etc.

>>18416691
Kill yourself

>>18416694
Your mother

>>18416702
That's all well and good, now get on your knees.

>>18416678
Because they're afraid of their own emotions, and of course they have to be smug about everything, so they pretend their tightassery is "self-control".

>>18416678
This pop interest into Stoicism is so blatantly an off-shoot of the interest towards self-help that it blends into the same thing, and at this rate the zoomer enthusiasts of stoicism are willing to admit it. It functions because it assumes that all issues begin and end in internal factors and internal responses to such factors, and such mentality is the key for self-help as an industry to continue existing and profiting out of the miserable idiots of the world. The main assumption being that your problems are ultimately caused by your internal responses and internal philosophies to the world around you, not by the circumstances, elements of the environment, people, events and phenomena happening all around you, inflicting themselves upon you. The response to a life where all afflictions are internal is a change of your internal functioning to a new philosophy provided by a new movement, a new self-help book, a new psychological state not too different from a drug. It is an attempt to willinlgy blind oneself from the external factors, external actors and external circumstances causing you affliction, not at all different from drinking, snorting or injecting to numb yourself from the pain of life.

This is why movements like Objectivism are so reviled. They actually demand that you acknowledge the external factors and circumstances that are affecting your life directly, understand their objective and empirically verifiable functioning and with that information, that truth, become capable of navigating such elements of the environment and external factors, being capable to change and solve the problems around you, and thus freeing yourself from the negative effects they have on your psyche.

In sum, self-help and crypto-self-help bullshit like stoicism merely tells you that all your problems are caused by internal factors and that by changing those factors you can magically solve all your problems, as opposed to facing the effects and influence of external factors on your quality of life, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, because if you learn how to deal with the external elements harming your happiness, then you are free from pop philosophies and self-help pop books.

>>18416724
>if you learn how to deal with the external elements harming your happiness

how is this any different from the philosophies you are trying to critique?

Why do Redditors come here and cry about Israel and China? Don't act like people can't tell.

>>18416730
An external attempt at dealing with a problem would be to solve it, to remove it entirely, to fix the situation, while an internal attempt is to merely accept it and attempt to ignore it, which is only a matter of time until it starts being noticeable again. Ignoring problems and swallowing them goes against the natural functioning of the mind.

>>18416724
Totally agree. It's right in step with the "self-esteem movement" of the recent past. It's a cheap product that anyone can buy, and conceptually applies to everyone. Just feel good about yourself!

Not to mention that modern Stoics conveniently forget, you know, all of modern psychology. You know, like the obvious (or not-so obvious) fact that you cannot simply choose your emotions, which is a glaring error that is directly at the crux of the Stoic ethos. It's really a great product for this reason: it only works on the people who are emotionally stable enough to pull it off, and therefore people who don't have serious problems.

>>18416678
Because it’s a cuck philosophy.

Stoicism, Buddhism, and similar are NPC philosophies/religions.

>>18416678
babby's first philosophy.

>>18416691
You're a fat, tranny faggot. I want to watch naked and suave Peter Hitchens diarrhea all over your fat, ugly face.