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by chuckadams 640 days ago
> Were there meme-pages on tiktoks which contextualized his writings in different day-to-day scenarios so that the importance of his general ideas were imprinted on their minds?

I honestly cannot tell whether this is satire or if I just don’t want to be on this planet anymore.

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Meme-pages are today's "brevity is the soul of wit". They really distill experience and wisdom in nice consumable package.
I hope it's satire. It would be quite limiting to believe that people can only learn things from short format video
Marcus Aurelis wrote in short snippets format. They were notes to himself which were latter organized into flowing organized essays by historians and writers.