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Comment by rednafi

18 days ago

Stoicism often gets conflated with apathy, which to some extent is a fair interpretation. But it’s not being indifferent to everything - rather, only to the things that disrupt your psychological stasis.

Then Silicon Valley ran with the idea and made it about tone-deafness. So now it’s almost fashionable to be intentionally cruel and tone-deaf, and then chalk it up to Stoicism.