Ryan Holiday
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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And the reason for this is they think that their job is to be an informed citizen.
And it is, your job is to be an informed citizen in America, in any democracy.
The problem is watching news in real time is not necessarily the best way to be informed.
And so I urge people to read more history, not because it takes anything away from the moral calamities that are happening in this moment, but it allows you to understand them in context.
It allows you to understand which ones are really important and which ones are kind of par for the course.
Right?
And it allows you to also remember that, like, no one has lived in a perfect society and that most of the people that you admired were looking around at the world and going, what the fuck are we doing?
This is insane.
You know?
Like, and that actually the job is to not despair, not to get into, like, bitterness and anger, not to... not to, like...
One of the things Mark Strauss talks about in meditations, he talks about revenge a lot.
You can imagine the most powerful man in the world, if he wants to get revenge on someone, he can do some pretty heinous things to people.
But he says, you know, he tries to remind himself the best revenge is to not be like your enemy.
And one of the things I look out at the world and I go, I don't like the corruption.
I don't like the cruelty.
I don't like the dishonesty.
I don't like the pettiness.
I don't like the crassness.
I don't like any of this.
Now, obviously as a citizen, my job is to vote against those things, speak out against those things.
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