> It seems to me that Stoic Philosophy is likely the best protection/treatment f Seems to me that those are just fancy synonyms for "just give up and go along to get along because you can't stop any of the madness!" When the source of the madness, a subset of individuals running the political and financial systems in the west, is provably stoppable. History shows us how it is stopped. More people, more problems. More elites, more problems. So what do you get with less elites?