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Pragmatism: meme version

I almost didn't post this due to one of the words being misspelled, but I think that's part of the charm.

More people need to spend some time learning about Pragmatism which, by way of analogy, is to 'pragmatism' the way that being Stoic is to being 'stoic'.

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The word you're looking for is 'eudaimonia'

This post by JA Westenberg is about the 'middle path' which they equate with the Buddha, but which I'd associate with Aristotle:

We talk about the boring middle. The lazy middle. The compromised middle. But I put it to you that our obsession with picking the extreme and laughing at moderation is little more than cope. It’s our obsession with tribalism, with extremism, with feeling over thinking, with belonging over being. It’s destructive, unhelpful, and soul-destroying.