Stoic advice: what about politics?

[We are global citizens, and yet it’s so hard to talk to others about politics]

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C. writes: As a Catalan/Spanish/European citizen, my political views and hopes are increasingly becoming tinged with a dark skepticism that operates at two levels. Level one, people. I think that our politicians are quite mediocre at best, when not corrupt. Level two, ideas. I’ve always been leaning to the…