I didn’t have the Freedom filter protecting me from the internet. After reading a bit of Seneca (pedantic and dry, and I’m soldiering through because people speak so highly of him) my fingers turned to the usual uproar stuff on the internet.
Someday I will be unflappable. I’m not there now. So for the moment I must keep the filters strong: feed myself with what is good, by not allowing myself to search for and dwell on finding fault with others.
Now is the season to become strong. The Kingdom of God is within.
Ethics. Physical health. Wisdom.
Now is the time to speak of these things. Not as a promoter, a preacher, a politician. These people have no soul. No, now is the time to speak as a practitioner. Speak by example. Speak by living and doing. And by plainly calling bullshit on bullshit people.
For now, developing wisdom or the virtues (along Seneca’s lines, though I see scant difference in many ways between Seneca and The Carpenter) and radiating those values is my life.
And per Taleb, if you see a fraud and don’t say fraud, you are a fraud. But that, after all, is just a practical application of virtue.