The 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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alansaber 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	senko 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Where can I find this AI generated cool video game character spewing out pop philosophy? Sounds like fun!

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aquariusDue 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Only because Freud and Jung fell out of fashion, these TikToks are the pop-psychology books of yesteryear.

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drcongo 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well that's pretty depressing, I had no idea.