Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

It's not only always been like this, it's always been worse.

It's not new, okay? Ancient Greece had earthquakes and horrible storms

and natural disasters. People suffered. People were killed. People stole the money intended to help those

people. Ancient Rome had tyrants and bullies. It had pointless cruelty and systemic injustices.

For centuries, people have fought over minuscule differences.

Their governments have been dysfunctional.

Their traditions seem like they were falling apart.

Stuff was changing.

Stuff was stressful stuff suck.

It's not only always been like this, it's probably always been worse.

You can look out at the news and despair about things, or you can zoom out and see

progress. You can focus on bad people and miss that the bad people today are almost certainly

better than the bad people back then. Even the people you disagree with and dislike politically

are not selling their enemies into slavery, sending children to work in minds or doing

science experiments on minorities, things that were not only common in Zeno and Mark

Surrealis' time, but common enough not that long ago.

You live in a time of abundance and medicine and knowledge and opportunity, things that

the Stoics could not have imagined in their wildest dreams.

So yes, see what is broken.

Yes, work to make it better.

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