The Winds May Howl But…
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🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
As history repeats itself in new and unfamiliar forms, we will once again choose to stand firm, knowing that while the storm may be relentless, our resolve will always be stronger.
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| 0:47.0 | The winds may how, but you could say that stoicism seems to re-emerge when the world is thrown into crisis. Whether it was during the American Revolution or Victor Frankel following the World Wars, writers and thinkers and doers throughout history have turned to the stokes in search of answers to the problem of their day. |
| 1:01.0 | Isn't that what we're doing here at Daily St looking for ways to deal with the craziness of our |
| 1:06.0 | times that have included political division, unstable economies in a global pandemic to name just a few issues of the recent past. |
| 1:15.2 | We asked Mike Duncan, who's done the history of Rome and revolutions. |
| 1:20.0 | He has this amazing book called The Storm Before the Storm, which I've raved about, we carried |
| 1:24.0 | the painted porch. We asked him, why does Stoicism seem to reappear when we need it most? |
| 1:29.2 | And his answer was great. |
| 1:31.0 | He says, any time the world starts to feel like it's being engulfed by entropy, |
| 1:35.2 | chaos and noisy disunity, the mind naturally seeks out something that offers cohesion, |
| 1:41.1 | order, and quiet unity. We get carried away by events and certainly feel our passions |
| 1:46.0 | leading us into behavior that we might upon reflection regret. Stoicism, he said, offers a solid place to plant your feet and says the winds may how, but I will not be swept away. |
| 2:00.0 | That's a fantastic definition of the attitude the Stoic seeks to cultivate. |
| 2:06.6 | The winds may howl, but I will not be swept away. |
| 2:10.1 | As we head into the coming weeks where an election here in America promises an ever-swirling storm of uncertainty, it's easy to feel overwhelmed, frustrated, pulled in a thousand different directions. |
| 2:21.6 | The mob might react with anger. There might be confusion and |
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