Be in the world, but not of the world. Early Christians were in the same position in Rome. They lived moral, decent lives, but were surrounded by perverts and degenerates of every description. Corruption and vice were everywhere. The only answer is to set yourself apart mentally and spiritually.
Also, be mindful of the Stoic maxim that there are things within your power, and things outside of your power. The things in your power you can personally change, but the things outside of your power you cannot change, so there is no value in becoming emotionally involved with them.
You can change yourself -- your attitudes, your health, your residence, your friends, your job, your clothing, your hair cut, your education, and so on. You cannot change the greater society around you, and if you invest too much emotion in worrying about it or hating it, that emotion will only burn you out. You have to let it go. Observe it, recognize that it is evil and wrong, but do not engage with it. Let it pass over you and through you without touching you.
The things in your power you can personally change, but the things outside of your power you cannot change, so there is no value in becoming emotionally involved with them.
I've read meditations and let me tell you, outside of personal improvement, this is PURE bullshit.
There's absolutely a point to becoming emotionally involved in matters that disgust you, even if you cannot change them as an individual.
That's because it's not what you personally can change, it's what you can organize with OTHERS to change. Do you think a single individual inflicted this neo-bolshevik hellscape on us? No. It was perpetrated by massive groups of people all over the world united under a common cause of zionism.
This is where stoicism and anti-group identity bullshit fall apart and become another tool to pacify the victims by dividing and conquering them into individuals instead of a cohesive movement.
Ya god damn right.
Wouldn't the proper organization then put those things withing the realm of what you can change?
Yeah, something like that. It needs to include collective action and leadership, not individual action only. Without collective action and group identity, it's dangerous propaganda like that cuck Jordan Peterson spews.
Wise you are, Obi Wan Ardvarcus. Seriously though, the world is so upside down now, it's important to, like you say, "let it pass over you without touching you".
your post is going to help me so much.
Yes yes, but I do enjoy being angry all the time. It's addictive.
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Reminds me of the serenity prayer.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things that I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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