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16129693? ago

When you get emotional and allow a news article to make you emotional, you activate the more primitive parts of your mind, stealing electrochemical energy from the part that makes you human, the part on the front that no other creature has. Junk food. A sedentary life. Electronic screen dopamine traps. Pornography. Drugs. These things and more all work together, designed by people you will never meet and never know about, to steal your humanity and make you more of an easily controlled animal.

This is not new. Aristotle wrote an entire treatise on it, which Thomas Aquinas later built upon. Freedom and happiness are only possible when bodily wants and emotions are subject to the mastery of reason and the human will. That is the greatest treasure of Western Civilization, and the reason that classical wisdom is being expunged.

16133416? ago

Did you know that there is a v/stoicism on Voat? Very interesting sub.