The Past Is a Lie | Would Ryan Holiday Ever Run for Office?
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. The past Is a lie.
It's very easy to glamorize the past. We did it in yesterday's Daily Stoic email and podcast, marveling at what it must have been like to live in an age of Katoes. Or Marcus Aurelius's. A time of philosopher kings, a time of honor and virtue that To see the forum before it fell into ruin, the glory that was Rome.
Kaput Mundi, the center of the world in all its marble splendor. Except this is a lie, or at least it's an illusion. After all, Cicero had to remind Cato that they did not live in Plato's Republic but in the dregs. Of Romulus. There was corruption everywhere in those days. There was political violence and nearly unimaginable cruelty.
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