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Re:Why Is Stoicism Having a Cultural Moment? by dragonwriter on Monday October 12, 2015 @03:55PM (#10376637)
> Who is the group X that started the routine of saying "we are group X and we are special and isolated from the rest of human kind because of our unique suffering and/or significance"?

No one knows -- that pattern is evidenced as far back as recorded history goes pretty much everywhere in the world; its definitely older than writing, and quite possibly as old as the ability to communicate sophisticated enough concepts to express it.

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Re:Why Is Stoicism Having a Cultural Moment? by norea-armozel on Monday October 12, 2015 @05:11PM (#10376987)
I'm not sure the commenter is engaging the question in good faith. I'm going to suggest disengaging with them until they demonstrate their thesis. It sucks to do that, but this has that troll feel to me.
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