Ryan Holiday
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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But like, the idea that like,
there are more people out there that feel this way than people think is really important.
And, because it's so easy to think like, oh, everyone's going along with this.
Everyone's okay with this.
Like, this is just what we have to put up with.
And I think it's important, like acts of courage, like cowardice is contagious and so is courage.
moral courage and physical courage.
Like, if you see someone else do it, it changes your sense of what's possible and what, um, is sort of, uh,
the cultural expectation.
And I think when I say we're in a death spiral, it's like everyone is saving themselves for some crisis.
And it's like, dude, this is the crisis.
This is it, man.
How much worse are you expecting it to get?
And look, the Stoics are not exempt from this.
As I said, Seneca works for Nero.
Now, Seneca probably told himself,
he was the adult in the room, that he was making Nero less bad, and that he prevented Nero from doing a lot of bad stuff.
And he almost certainly did.
But as a result, he also allowed Nero to do a lot of bad stuff.
And these are not easy moral choices.
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