This was my take away as well. There is a lot of important nuance lost. A lot of stoic philosophy taken in bite size pieces can seem totally bat shit and stupi

This was my take away as well. There is a lot of important nuance lost. A lot of stoic philosophy taken in bite size pieces can seem totally bat shit and stupid, but if you read generations of people’s thoughts, learn to place the ideas temporally and culturally (to some degree at least), even the bizarre parts begin to make sense contextually. Even so, anything that tries to make philosophy more accessible and interesting to people is good in my book. Reading bro Marcus Aurelius is arguably better than reading nothing at all.