The Daily Stoic - People Are People and Places Are Places

Episode Date: July 31, 2020

"With all the change of history, with all the progress we’ve made, we’re still people. Places are still places, cultures still cultures—with all their unique tendencies, flaws, and patterns. We like to think we’re so different, that we’ve so moved on from the past, but have we?"Ryan discusses how history repeats itself, and the lesson we can draw from this, in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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but the pretext was legal wrangling over whether guns could be carried in town. It took 30 seconds and 30 shots, but it launched wide-erp in Doc holiday into history. Does it take a bit of the sheen off the legend of the gunfight at the OK Corral to know that 132 years later, law enforcement is still squabbling over this exact same issue with residents of the same town? Indeed, a recent article from the Arizona Republic, which was founded in 1890, reads,

as if it could have been published about why it erps struggle to enforce his firearms law in tombstones saloons. Instead, it was published in February 2020. We've talked about how time is a flat circle that per the Stoics history is the same thing happening over and over again. You could change a few words from today's report about the latest pandemic numbers and splice them unnoticed into Gibbons recounting of the Antonine plague. You could take the latest leak out of Washington or the White House

and convince someone it was from Tacitus' recounting of Nero's regime just as you can take Seneca's descriptions of a noisy day in Rome as Opens Stillness is the key and publish it in a New York time story as a contemporary report. With all the changes of history with all the progress we've made, we're still people. Places are still places, cultures still cultures,

with all their unique tendencies, flaws, and patterns. We like to think we're so different that we've so moved on from the past. But have we? This is why the Stoic said we needed to understand human nature. It's why we needed to understand history. Don't go around being surprised or shocked at the dumb things people do or the evil they are capable of. Your expectations must be realistic, you must be

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