The Daily Stoic - Yes, Even Those People…

Episode Date: April 5, 2022

Ryan talks about how we all need each other.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/emailFollow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and FacebookSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic Podcast early and add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life, each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystoward.com. Yes, even those people. The last few years have shown us aspects of humanity, not small parts of society that repulse many of us. The events that have come to define these years have revealed the racists and the treasonous,

the callous and the stupid. We've watched nihilists burn down our buildings and try to shut down our governments. We've watched anti-vaxxers and COVID deniers overwhelm our hospitals and morgues. We've watched the self-righteous and the out-of-touch embarrass themselves with stupid slogans and impossibly wrong-headed policies. And does this surprise you? You need to remember that these people have always existed. Every era has had them, but more than that, as the Stokes would remind you, every era must have them. All of us are working on the same project, Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations, some

consciously, with understanding, some without knowing it, some of us work in one way and some in others, and those who complain and try to obstruct and thwart things, the world needs them too. The world needs these types for many reasons. First, because a diversity of opinion is in the aggregate better than the alternative. And second, because the obnoxious and the shameless and the evil do more for us than we think, they remind us what virtue is. They give us something to struggle against. They prevent us from becoming complacent. They illustrate the terrible costs of being just like them.

And they are, as Marcus Relius' famous passage about obstacles was written, they are the adversity that shows us the way. So by all means, fight against them. By all means to announce what they represent. Just don't buy the fantasy that they can ever be made to disappear. They can't.

And they shouldn't. We need them. And they need us. Thanks so much for listening to the Daily Stoke Podcast. If you don't know this, you can get these delivered to you via email every day. Check it out at dailystoke.com slash email. Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic early and ad free on Amazon Music, download the Amazon Music app today, or you can listen early and ad free with Wondery Plus in Apple podcasts.

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