Ryan Holiday

I think one of the problems is, as those other systems have fallen away, whether people are turning away from the church, or they're disillusioned with higher education, or they're disillusioned with the media, where do they go?

They go to random stuff on the internet.

A lot of those people are grifters or they're trying to weaponize those feelings or those doubts or those emotions of those people.

And so, you know, people end up down these dead ends and we can pity them, but also understand that, like, that's not a good way to go.

Marcus opens book two of meditations with a thought.

He says, today the people you will meet will be jealous and stupid and annoying and obnoxious and mean, right?

He goes on.

He's preparing for the day ahead, right?

And so some people think this is depressive stoicism that it's best.

But then he goes,

but you can't hate them and you can't let them implicate you in ugliness.

He says, because we're meant to work together.

We're like two rows of teeth or two hands and that we're all part of this large thing together and that some people are fulfilling their role by being the kind of people that you have to interview.

And then the rest of us are doing the best we can.

And that is life.

I love it.

And that is life.

I do.

I care.

You read a lot about America.