Ryan Holiday on America’s missing Statue of Responsibility

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🗓️ 22 August 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

“THE STATUE OF LIBERTY was a gift from France to America, commemorating the two nations’ friendship and shared love of freedom. Completed in 1886, it marked one of the world’s first, successful crowdfunding projects. The famous poem “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus, mounted in bronze inside the pedestal (“Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…”), was written for the campaign. Over $100,000 was raised from more than 120,000 donors, including schoolchildren who collected pennies.”

On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan reads his recent article about the missing statue of responsibility as proposed by the author of Man’s Search For Meaning Viktor Frankl, explains why it was such an honor for him to write, and talks about where the Stoic’s responsibility to society lies.

Read the article: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2021/08/16/ryan-holiday-on-americas-missing-statue-of-responsibility

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:11.0	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday
0:15.4	We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage
0:23.5	Justice temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend
0:27.5	We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview
0:31.9	Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging
0:41.6	Issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down
0:48.0	Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring
1:00.4	Hey, it's Ryan welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic
1:06.8	I'm just gearing up now for the publicity of my new book courage is calling
1:11.6	Which as you know, you can check out in preorder at daily stoic comm slash preorder
1:18.1	But anyways as part of it what happens is your publisher sends out you know sort of letters and
1:23.8	And pitches to all these different people and we heard back from a guy named Kenneth Cooke here at the economist and he was like
1:30.8	Hey, I'm interested in
1:33.7	Having you write something for the economist, but I want to talk to you first. So what's this?
1:38.5	So anyways, we get on the phone and crazy story
1:43.0	Ken and I had actually interacted like 10 years ago
1:47.3	I was in Amsterdam giving a talk about
1:50.6	Trustman M1 and I was talking about a lot of the problems in journalism and Ken
1:55.3	I'll just say he hated my talk we ended up getting in a bit of an argument about it
1:59.5	He came up to me after and he said how could you say these things? How could you do these things and we were just on different
2:05.3	Parts of the planet as far as how we were going on
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