alt Hacker NewsThe modern/online resurgence of stoicism isn’t driven by people that have studied actual books.
It’s being driven by people that are making tiktoks after they learned about it by watching a five minute YouTube video. It’s a very lossy game of telephone.
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aquariusDue • today at 3:40 PM
Only because Freud and Jung fell out of fashion, these TikToks are the pop-psychology books of yesteryear.
drcongo • today at 3:01 PM
Well that's pretty depressing, I had no idea.
Pop philosophy being turned into AI audio transcribed by a cool video game character (also being mostly AI generated) is clearly the crowning jewel of our civilization.