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Hey, it's Ron Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the DailyStoic Podcast.

We talked about this idea that at the core of stoicism is some sort of moral imperatives, right?

The first is the idea of sympathy, that we're all connected, that we owe a duty and obligation to other people.

This idea of okosis, this idea that we have a mutual affinity towards those people, is the driving force of a human kind.

It's why the stoics were politically active.

Then of course you get all sorts of interesting ideas, whether it's from Seneca who's saying wherever you see a person, there's an opportunity of kindness, there's markets are really the idea of the fruit of this life being good character and works for the common good.

So that's at the core of stoicism. And then of course the stoics were politically active.

I don't mean that in the policy sense. I mean that they were active in the events of the world trying to do right by and for other people.

And so I've become fascinated recently with the rise of China as a global world and economic power.

And some of the existential threats that potentially poses namely the human rights crisis with the with the weaker minorities and other minorities in China.

So today my guest is a journalist for Buzzfeed, Megha, Roger Gopolen. And she's not just a great journalist, but a journalist sort of on the forefront of reporting on what's going on in China.

Actually, her visa was revoked by the Chinese government for some of the reporting she's done on the weaker internment camps.

But she's also a big reader. I'd reached out to her. I'd read a really great piece that she'd written and she replied that she'd actually gets my reading list email where I recommend books every month.

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