Is Stocism just a mask ?

I'm onto you 5th dimensional psychic vampire AI pedophiles.

Stoicism is cuckoldry.

Suffering is inescapable in the animal kingdom. Even an Emperor can get the blues. The difference between suffering and suffering well is whether you allow your coping strategy to change you into a penniless addict alcoholic living out of doors, or you emancipate yourself from your grief by according yourself to a virtue and exerting control over your days. That is the essence of Stoicism. It is not a mask. It is, at bottom, an honest endeavor and expectation of oneself.

>inb4 but Diogenes lived in a barrel, isn't that more virtuous/harder?
Diogenes rejected his society. Stoics by definition embrace their time and place.

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>high IQ

You are assuming that becoming a penniless addict alcoholic is fundamentally inferior form of being than being virtuous and you are also assuming that people can choose their and don't necessarily become what they already are and must be.

The driving force of capitalism is not a new thing; the polis rejects that which has no social utility or wealth-generating capacity. A culture and state is a projection of the individual. Order is the goal of an ordered life, user. Those unable to work or meet social norms due to severe personal failings may be given neetbux in our day, but it was not so for much of human history (outside of a shunned, sin-eating shaman caste). In the eyes of the polis, which makes civilization and for whom the Stoic doctrine is written, a wastrel life IS objectively inferior.

*tip*

>You are assuming
Yea because this is Veeky Forums and not an academic paper. If he didn't assume he would first have to set out the groundwork for virtue ethics among other things. He would have to write a 30 page essay before he could say that sentence.

In essence, stoicism poses reactionary lifestyles against proactive lifestyles. The value determination can be up to you if you want to make it, but they took a stance because you can't just live in between. It would be the philosophical equivalent of being a skinny-fat shitlord at the gym doing circuit training crossfit twice a month as if it does anything. Pick one.

You also say this as if stoicism has any interest in convincing you and that is simply not the case.

>is stoicism actually BAD?
>lol I disagree because it makes me view my life in an uncomfortable way

The Greek you should follow and start with is Justin Martyr.
Read his dialogue with Typhro, and read his "Hortatory address to the Greeks"

newadvent.org/fathers/01281.htm

newadvent.org/fathers/0129.htm

The stoics pale in comparison.