Wrestling, Not Dancing

Derren Brown spends book seven of the Meditations chasing echoes forward: Sartre's freedom, Heidegger's being toward death, a river that Heraclitus already ruined for repeat visits. Then he turns to the philosopher who rejected Stoicism outright and quietly kept its best idea anyway, Nietzsche, and admits he loves both men's version of loving your fate. From there Marcus gets practical: pity for people who wrong you, a Roman ruler mocked no matter what he does, and a line about wrestling that outlasts him by two thousand years and picks a fight with Alan Watts.