If you ban books that you disagree with, you are a book banner.

I went down a stoicism rabbit hole for a while, but got a little disillusioned with it because it doesn’t really leave room for joy, excitement, passion, because these can all be taken from you. While this is true, I think it is harmful to focus too much on that, and it is better for mental health to leave room for joy and hope. Stoicism is a little bit too cynical for me. My theory is that this is why it died out. People are meant to be hopeful, even more hopeful than they should be.

The fact that you can freely criticize and say whatever you want about Elon means that he is not even close to as oppressive.

Not sure why the knee jerk hate on this one. I like the idea of opening up academic articles and other materials for free and open use.