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> I'm not downplaying the historical and philosophical value in Marcus Aurelius' writings but I do think it's funny how many people hold up his Meditations as an earth-shattering paradigm-shifting breakthrough in human thought when it was very, very clearly an extremely stressed out and depressed man desperately trying to teach himself any form of coping mechanism he could to put up with more or less being forced to continue to reign as emperor against his will
>> Meditations reads less like a philosophical text or compilation of thought and more like a series of post it notes Marcus had tacked to his bathroom mirror that said stuff like "hang in there kitten!" and "don't kill yourself today!"
pillow-princeps (via tumblr)
> I'm not downplaying the historical and philosophical value in Marcus Aurelius' writings but I do think it's funny how many people hold up his Meditations as an earth-shattering paradigm-shifting breakthrough in human thought when it was very, very clearly an extremely stressed out and depressed man desperately trying to teach himself any form of coping mechanism he could to put up with more or less being forced to continue to reign as emperor against his will
>> Meditations reads less like a philosophical text or compilation of thought and more like a series of post it notes Marcus had tacked to his bathroom mirror that said stuff like "hang in there kitten!" and "don't kill yourself today!"
