why is stoicism so popular among normies nowaday?

>>9400550
examples? stoner?

>>9400550
answer me!

>>9400550
>normies
>having any kind of philosophical framework outside of their own self interest

Philosophy itself or reading a fucking book is popular among normies, and you claim that stoicism is?
Kys

>>9400594
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>>9400699
Yea fuck you neets but OP is onto something

Normie friend messaged me asking about stoicism a few months ago

My guess - there was an """"amazing """" TED in the last couple of month or that bold British pop philopshee released another meme doco

>>9400550
Dialectics. Normies nowadays grow up with and embrace the hedonistic lifestyle almost to the extreme. Stoicism is antithetic to that, so it serves to bring them towards balance, at least a bit.

>>9400726
that's not stoicism.

>>9400550
>normies only

Because it is a moral and effective way of dealing with a busy unhappy life without resorting to psych meds.

>>9400731
I didn't even say what stoicism was. Care to enlighten us?

>>9400550
The School of Life

>>9400758
stoicism is not particularly in opposition to hedonism. not any more than every other philosophy.

>>9400781
but stoicism teaches to not let pleasures control you. Although I'm not quite sure the extent.

>>9400790
So does all philosophy, Western or Eastern, and all mainstream religions. There is nothing special about Stoicism in reference to asceticism.

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>>9400550
Christ was a stoic mixed with a bunch of other philosophies. It's been mainstream ever since its inception, brainlet.

>>9400829
I've always been interested in Christ's philosophy, since I have heard people mention his influences ranged from Plato to Stoicism, to Eastern philosophies. Any literature on this topic?

>normies

Philosophers more often than not are the most annoying super normies themselves. It is all about bitching whose ideas are better than the other ones. Nobody cares about truth really. If they would they would not publicate anything. They would contemplate and come to terms with life.