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Stoicism: The Ancient Remedy to the Modern Age

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How the Ancient Greeks can help us navigate cyberspace

“It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.” —Marcus Aurelius One can just as easily be blinded by light as by darkness. And that is the situation we now find ourselves in. We suffer not from a lack of information but from a surplus of it. We’re lost in a blizzard of ideas that obscures our way. There is a cure to this blindness, but, perhaps necessarily, it wasn't produced in our confused age. The cure is known as Stoicism, and though you’ll certainly have heard of it, you’re…

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