Jemma Spike

And you should be focused on your own virtues and focused on your own logic and ethics and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

There are definitely some people who would look at that and would interpret this as like, head down, don't get angry, don't react.

If you're a good person, you don't have anything to worry about.

That's all you needed to do.

You don't need to improve anything beyond that.

The world is as it is.

You have done your part.

When we think about the world as it is right now,

It's just not a mindset that most of us can have.

It's a very problematic mindset if we take Stoicism to be that version.

To take a really contemporary example, there are people protesting against dictatorships, against injustice all over the world at the moment.

They're very rightfully angry and they may not be living in that moment according to

the specific bylines of stoicism, but does that mean that they're doing life incorrectly?

Does that mean that they're sabotaging their chances at happiness if they just focus more on what they could control?

No.

It needs to be done.

And it's at moments like this that Stoicism does face accusations of being a very privileged life philosophy to follow.

This notion of protecting your peace and suggesting that people's pain, for example, people's worrying and suffering could be improved with the mindset shift, that can be seen as very patronizing and probably very wrong.

I think at worst, Stoicism has been accused of being

a lifestyle accessory to the wealthy and maybe a way to kind of silence some things that we should be loud about.