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🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

It’s easy to look at history and despair. Humans have been terrible to each other–going back to Marcus Aurelius’s time all the way through today. In fact, sometimes it feels like that’s all we’ve ever been.

The writer Mary Karr once asked a religious friend, “How can you believe in God, you know, when there was a Holocaust?” The friend had a reply that stopped her cold: “But you’re not in the Holocaust.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast.
0:05.7	Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, illustrated with stories
0:11.0	from history, current events, and literature to help you be better at what you do.
0:16.0	And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of Stoic
0:20.0	intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave
0:25.0	you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing.
0:28.8	So let's get into it.
0:31.1	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic Podcast early and add free on Amazon
0:41.6	music.
0:42.6	Download the app today.
0:44.3	You're not there now.
0:48.8	And that's a good thing.
0:52.3	It's easy to look at history and despair.
0:54.3	Humans have been terrible to each other.
0:56.6	Going back all the way to Marcus Aurelius' time through today.
1:00.8	In fact, sometimes it feels like that's all we've ever been.
1:05.8	The writer Mary Carr once asked her religious friend, how can you believe in God, you know,
1:10.0	when there was a Holocaust?
1:11.9	The friend had a reply that stopped her cold, but you're not in the Holocaust.
1:17.2	In his writing, Seneca talks about how we tend to worry ourselves into spirals of anxiety
1:21.7	and despair.
1:23.0	We look at what has happened and we extrapolate outward could happen.
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