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.
Stoicism without Attribution
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.
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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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