Where Does The Good Go?

​ ​ There have been dark and depressing moments for as long as there have been moments. As Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations, people have always been doing the same things. Lying. Fighting over money. Scapegoating immigrants. Cheating to get ahead. Blaming everyone but themselves. It's enough to make you ask: Where does the good go? What has the good gone? But for all the darkness that Marcus Aurelius observed and lamented, he also knew there was an inexhaustible supply of goodness out there. Actually, he knew it wasn't out there at all—it was within himself. "Dig deep" he writes, "the water—goodness is down there. And as long as you keep digging, it will keep bubbling up." We are right to be disappointed and frustrated with the state of the world. The moral inversion that has consumed our current political and cultural landscape—as we recently said—is inexcusable. We should fight against it, fight to reform it. At the same time, we never need to despair about good in the world because we have it within us. We can always go back to that well. Starting today. —This newsletter is supported by GiveDirectly.​ ​ ​We're just $40,000 away from our goal to deliver cash to an entire village in Rwanda. That's enough to give 30 more families the opportunity to improve their lives for themselves. For a sense of how far your money can go in these communities—$40K is enough to buy: 100 cows, so families can drink milk and fertilize their farms 160 plots of land for people to live on and start farms 1,000 solar panels, so families can light their homes at night 5,000 iron sheets, so people can build permanent homes Give today and see what else your cash can do at GiveDirectly.org/Stoic. *** Read on DailyStoic.com Listen to Today's Podcast ​Unsubscribe | I only want to receive Saturday Stoic emails | Update your profile​ ​906 Main Street #274, Bastrop, Texas 78602 | info@dailystoic.com is not a monitored email