THE PAST AND PRESENT PROBLEM: WE WON. —“What Stoics were lacking is the defini

THE PAST AND PRESENT PROBLEM: WE WON.

—“What Stoics were lacking is the definition of inspiration, the driving force, the Light that draws men closer to the ultimate goal”. — Igor Rogov

In other words, they failed to identify Transcendence as a spiritual replacement for resistance against the tyranny of the east (war).

They confused living in correspondence with the laws of the physical world, with the defeat of the dark forces of the barbarians, the un-sovereign peoples, the lies of the fictionalists (idealists/supernaturalists), the combination of our own ignorance, error, bias and deceit, the defeat of regression to the mean in any group, and the universal war against time, scarcity, and a hostile universe.

They failed to turn their via-negativa (defense) into a via positiva (transcendence). The defeat of the east, the defeat of the self, the defeat of the universe: transcendence.

The problem was that once the ancients ‘won’ the lost their source of inspiration: defense against the evils of the east.

THIS IS THE CURRENT PROBLEM AS WELL.

For heroic man, for who truthful speech (meaning scientific speech), meaning virtuous speech, display and action, what is the reason for sacrifice to the commons (Rather than conspicuous consumption) once we’ve ‘won’?