Philosophy can be a powerful tool.
But what if that “stoic tool” only makes you passive and even more stuck in a situation you absolutely hate?
WTF?
“endurance of pain… without complaint” ???
Now look at similar terms:
- lack of protest
- lack of complaint
- resignation
- acceptance
What kind of philosophy is that?
Basically it says: “if your life is shit 💩, just eat it all up” (and smile while eating it)
Talk about being an absolute mind slave. 🤦♂️
Was Marcus Aurelius Wrong?
No!
He was a genius.
It’s just that most of his readers are idiots.
And even though he is dead for over a thousand years, he still managed to outplay everyone. 😲
Let me show you how…
Anger
“Any idiot can be angry for 2 minutes (in which he usually does something very stupid). But sustained anger? That’s a skill to be developed… a POWER to be harnessed.”
There is a reason you always see water dams built around big, wild, and powerful rivers.
And it’s never around small, quiet, and “stoic” streams.
Your emotions hold an incredible amount of energy. And by suppressing or ignoring them, you’re stripping yourself from the greatest source of power.
Negative Emotions
The only negative emotions are the ones that prevent you from taking action and influencing your surroundings:
- ❌ sadness
- ❌ depression
- ❌ laziness (i.e. meditation) etc.
Remember… entire revolutions start when a lot of people are angry.
Kings have fallen (along with their heads) when helpless peasants got angry enough.
And those angry people forced their will upon the world, and changed the course of history.
That is why you don’t have any historic examples of stoic thinkers getting together and changing anything.
Stoic ideas only changed one thing… YOU
- they pacified you
- they made you docile
- they convinced you to accept the unacceptable
The Genius of Stoicism
Marcus Aurelius was not stupid, it’s just that most of his readers are.
He was a military genius and warmonger who practically invented a new type of waging war – psychological warfare.
He had one of the longest reigns in the Roman Empire that spanned over 19 years.
⚠️ Remember, that was at a time when others couldn’t hold their reign for more than a few years. Sometimes, not even a few months. For example, emperor Pertinax (January–March 193 CE) and emperor Julianus (March–June 193 CE).
And how did he spend those long years as a ruler?
Meditating perhaps?
No!
It was WAR.
Force and violence. ⚔️
And while he’s rampaging throughout the known world, expanding the borders, violently pushing through every obstacle… he’s teaching his internal opponents to “stay calm” in the face of adversity.
(that adversity most likely being him) 😅
This means Marcus Aurelius was the closest thing we ever got to a real “god of war” walking upon this Earth.
He wasn’t some idiot who got himself killed by his own people at the age of 33 like Alexander “The Great”.
No.
He used the powerful principle from The Art of War:
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
— Sun Tzu
And how did he subdue everyone without fighting?
With his “words of wisdom”.
His external enemies got the sharp edge of the sword, 🗡️ but his internal enemies got the sweet words of “wisdom”. 📜
And, in the end, they both got conquered.
Therefore…
⚠️ Stoicism is the earliest and best documented example of psychological warfare (i.e. his propaganda machine).
And today, millions of idiots across the world proclaim his “mind‑controlling propaganda” is a road to success, when nothing could be further from the truth:
- instead of studying his tactics – they consume it 🤦♂️
- instead of using it as a weapon, they shoot themselves in the head with it 🤦♂️
This dude has already been dead for 18 centuries, and he’s still conquering the world.
What an absolute genius.
He has my absolute mad respect 👍
…
On the other hand…
…
..there is you…
- reading the books that glorify stoicism
- from authors that didn’t even realize they got played 🤦♂️
- and you wonder why your life is shit (LOL)
Because what is the point of learning from people who are easily tricked?
Especially philosophy.
That doesn’t seem very wise, doesn’t it?
Instead, why don’t you read a book that actually cracked the code, written by someone who didn’t fall for stoicism propaganda? (like everybody else did)
And if you unlearn all the crap you’ve read about stoicism so far…
…you will never be the same person again.
Guaranteed.
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