It's the aborted branch of western thought that most closely converged upon the truths found in eastern philosophy. And for the same reason those ideolgies have

It's the aborted branch of western thought that most closely converged upon the truths found in eastern philosophy. And for the same reason those ideolgies have risen in the last 50 years, stoicism has gained ground. The West has become so thouroughly materialistic, both physically and culturally, that the disconnect between the inability to achieve that material happiness due to income inequality and the reality of modern wage slavery has driven many to find solace in those ideas. The alternative is to resign yourself to mainline western thought, and more than likely end up in a state of ressentiment from the above https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment.