Your Duty Remains The Same
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🗓️ 6 November 2024
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Summary
As a Stoic, nothing in an election changes what is asked or obligated of you. You are still expected to be a person of virtue.
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| 0:15.4 | we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, |
| 0:21.6 | everyday life. |
| 0:26.5 | Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us, dailysteoac.com. |
| 0:45.9 | Your duty remains the same. It was always unlikely that this would be settled quickly. It was inevitable that it would not go someone's way. So today, as the dust settles on the U.S. election, |
| 0:52.2 | you may find yourself glued to the TV screen or refreshing |
| 0:55.5 | your social media feed. You are almost certainly worried. Even if you feel some relief, |
| 1:00.8 | the truth is that none of us know how this will shake out. What do we to do? What does it all mean? |
| 1:06.7 | What if it's about to get real, real bad? You are not wrong to think about this, but you aren't |
| 1:13.3 | mistaken if you think that what has happened or what will happen or who was elected changes anything. |
| 1:20.1 | This is not to argue that elections don't matter. They absolutely do, as we have said many times. |
| 1:25.1 | It's just that as a stoic, nothing in an election changes what |
| 1:29.2 | is asked or obligated of you. It doesn't matter if a tyrant or a philosopher king comes to power. |
| 1:35.6 | It doesn't matter if you yourself are the person who comes to power. You are still expected to be good. |
| 1:40.6 | You are still expected to be a person of virtue. Whatever anyone does or says, for my part, |
| 1:47.0 | I am bound to the good, Marx Reelius writes in meditations, in the same way an emerald or gold or |
| 1:52.3 | purple might always proclaim whatever anyone does or says, I must be what I am and show my true |
| 1:58.1 | colors. Whatever happens in life, in world events, in politics, |
| 2:02.1 | our job is our job, our duty is our duty. How can anything stop you? Marcus asks elsewhere in |
| 2:08.5 | meditations. How does this stop you from acting with courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom? |
| 2:15.3 | In fact, it may well be that these election results present you with an |
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