"How many people will read Ryan Holiday and never touch Marc Aurelius?"

"How many people will read Ryan Holiday and never touch Marc Aurelius?"
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How many people will quote Nietzsche but never read Nietzsche?

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oddly enough i was thinking about this in the shower yesterday. it's why i try to never use excerpts from works i haven't read. because often when you take the work in full, the excerpt comes to take on a much more different meaning than you thought it did.

i think the modern alpha male conception of most things is... laughable at best. 

but yes, it's interesting how by embracing excerpt culture, and entire movement can use the words of people who would have opposed them to sell their ideals. 

i once saw an alpha male account on instagram post a quote from c.s. lewis. how uneducated do you have to be to think that c.s. lewis would have had anything but harsh words for this alpha male movement?

in a  sense marcus aurelius was a very lonely man and writing the meditations as a way to remain a good person despite having all that power, and lacking an equal (in wit, power etc). 

So with that framing it too reads different than what the alpha bros tell you about being a Strong man. I mean yes strong, but a very different meaning to the strong they think about.