This is the exact phrasing I was just searching for, and I fear the same thing that this pop stoicism revival is trying to formalize some really asocial behaviors.

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fc417fc802 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's not just pop stoicism. For years now it seems to me that a lot of memes regarding personal conduct spread on social media that essentially try to dress up toxic behavior in a positive light and encourage it.

I'm aware that society had these same sorts of issues prior to social media but it's still depressing watching it play out.

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prox 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Reminds of “We belief something first, and then we pick our reasons for it.”

People aren’t really engaging with their philosophy (“love of wisdom”) but pick and choose so it reinforces what they already believe. They don’t exactly think about it they stay mildly glossing some concepts in the popular amateur/ social media sphere.

	▲	aquariusDue 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In some ways I always wonder if this Build-A-Bear thingy we've developed in the last 100 or so years regarding spirituality, morals, principles and all that as an alternative to traditional religious practices isn't just as lame as what it's meant to replace but in its own kind. I'm not advocating for religious institutions or theocracy, mind you, I'm trying to formulate an argument how someone talking about how living life in accordance to Stoics on YouTube or Christ in a church is more of an aesthetics issue than a virtue one. Though I feel by the time I successfully formulate that argument I'll have multiple groups clamoring for my head.