It's common for great ideas to be stolen -- Quentin Tarantino
admits that he rather wantonly stole from earlier filmmakers in his work. One rarely sees it done so
brazenly as with this "new" book. It's just
Epictetus, for those of you who remember us going through that in 2022. It's not even all of Epictetus, just one core insight of his popularized with contemporary stories.
People are getting tattoos with her book title. The hostess is swooning. It's an amazing display of a sentimental response to a plagiarism that the journalists and their audiences are too ignorant to recognize.
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Well, let's look at the bright side- if she brings some principles of stoicism into people's lives and they take to it, we are all that much better off, ignorance or no. I'll take it. We need it, as a society, desperately.
Quite true. Not every fraud is harmful. Sometimes one can trick people into helping themselves.
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