Stoicism is hard when you’re on the fiat hamster wheel lifestyle.
Discussion
In what ways does fiat have an influence on stoicism?
The high rate of money printing makes it difficult to not get caught in the rat race
But if you're stoic you just let it happen or do something about it right?
Theoretically, one could be in the rat race and not let it change their attitude.
One can be an emperor or a slave.
I didn’t say it was impossible. I said it was hard 😂
Life is suffering, you can practice being Stoic about it.
Life is unsatisfactory.
When there is no you, Stoicism is realized 💝
Stoicism wouldn't be valuable if things were easy
That’s true but the father of stoicism definitely had it pretty damn good 😂
Easy for me to say as well but the battle is always internal. Even with all the money and time in the world, we create problems and insecurities because it is in our nature. Move past them and control what you can control while letting go of what you cannot.
"authentic" spiritual practices are usually the result of wealthy societies
like you say, hard to do the work when you're trying to put food on the table.
this is exactly why I care about hard money.
This would explain why our culture has become so degenerate
+1
keep them sick and fighting for crumbs and they will degenerate naturally 😢
This is kinda what I was trying to say in my original post. Things like meditation and mindfulness are helpful but also build tolerance to unacceptable circumstances. Instead of ending the fed, people do deep breathing and positive affirmations.
nostr is my deep breathing lol
NGL, nostr has been better for my mental health than any other mindfulness shit lol
People are focusing on the mind.
The mind is full of noise and the reason for their searching for peace.
Realise that you are not the mind.
Notice the distance between YOU and your mind.
Watch the mind.
See it for what it is.
Then you be free.
I agree with you on all these points. However, some of the noise is legitimate. For example, my anxiety about fiat debasement is what pushed me to study Austrian economics. If I ignored that anxiety and just labeled it as noise, I’d be poor as fuck and still bending the knee to the legacy financial system. I think we need a balance.
Help me out here 
"Michael Saylor needs some rest"
its a kind of bootstrapping
Things are easy 😎
You either can't do anything about it, or you can.
the *most* important reason to get off fiat and on a hard money standard,
is so the people have leisure for spiritual recognition and practice.