https://dailystoic.com/marcus-aurelius-leadership-during-a-pandemic/
"It shouldn’t surprise us that an ancient pestilence—one that spanned
the entire reign of Marcus Aurelius—feels so, well, modern. As Marcus
would write in his diary at some point during this horrible plague,
history has a way of repeating itself. “To bear in mind constantly that
all of this has happened before,” he said in Meditations. “And will
happen again—the same plot from beginning to end, the identical staging.
Produce them in your mind, as you know them from experience or from
history: the court of Hadrian, of Antoninus. The courts of Philip,
Alexander, Croesus. All just the same. Only the people different.”
This pattern of disease is nauseatingly familiar. It’s a pattern that
has repeated itself like a fractal across history. Indeed, we could be
talking about the Bubonic Plague (aka the Black Death), the Spanish Flu
of 1918, or the cholera pandemics of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, just as easily as we are talking about the Antonine Plague
and thinking about the coronavirus pandemic that is spreading across the
globe. As Marcus would say, all we’d have to do is change a few dates
and names."
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
