The Obstacle Isn't The Way

Practical Stoicism

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0	Most of our media are owned by a handful of tech billionaires, but there's one place that still operates like the internet was never invented.
0:10.4	On the new season of the divided dial from On the Media, we're exploring shortwave radio, where prayer and propaganda coexist with news and conspiracy theories, and where an existential battle
0:22.6	for the public airwaves is playing out right now.
0:26.9	Listen to On the Media wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.3	Hi there, Prokaptan.
0:31.4	Welcome back.
0:32.4	Today we'll be covering Meditation 20 from Book 5.
0:36.2	That meditation reads as follows. In one relation, man is the nearest
0:41.3	creature to ourselves, so far as we must do them good and suffer them. But so far as they are
0:47.8	obstacles to my peculiar duties, man becomes something indifferent to me, as much as sun or wind or injurious beast. By these,
0:58.1	some action might be hindered, but they are not hindrances to my impulse and disposition
1:03.9	because of my power of reservation and adaptation. For the understanding adapts and alters every obstacle to action to suit its object,
1:14.1	and a hindrance to a given duty becomes a help, an obstacle in a given path, a furtherance.
1:21.6	Before we can dive into this meditation and today's episode, I have a few new patrons to thank.
1:30.8	Thank you to Jason Mock, Alexander Lund, Brian Kinnaman, and Kurtz Karate. Your support of my work beyond this podcast directly
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1:53.1	supporting my work, you can begin doing so by going to actual stoicism.com forward slash support. By doing this, you will gain access to a few exclusive
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