Queer Eye for the Stoic Guy

I've been influenced by many philosophies in my time, but the one that has had most impact on my life in the the last ten years is Stoicism. Not that I'm a card-carrying member of the New Stoa or anything; it's just that writers like Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius make a lot of sense to me, and I find Stoic practices actually work pretty well in making me a happy Solri. So what (as mentioned in my previous post) do I find so appealing in a programme like Queer Eye? At first glance, a bunch of guys getting distraught at bad grooming looks like the antithesis of Stoicism. Stoicism does not make you immediately think of Ralph Loren. Stoics are supposed to look like this …

not like this.



However, it's worth scraping our fingernails across the patina of culture to see if there is any way we can reconcile Zeno, Chrysippus, Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, on the one hand, with Ted, Kyan, Thom, Jai and Carson on the other.
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