{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Left Page - Episode 90 - Meditations: How to Hide Inside Your Empire","description":"Hello everyone!!  For our late Left Page this month, we dive into an odd choice, but a fruitful one! Emperor Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, from 161 A.D.!  In what we find to be one of the original inspirations for self-help books, we... certainly suffer through this one! Talking about how an Emperor can isolate himself from his society and keep himself above it, becoming &quot;a perfect and invincible soul&quot;.  And we tackle it in turn, with our own experiences, charging against his feeble attempts at &quot;human nature&quot;, what he understands existance and history to be, and worst and scariest of all, the horror of men.  Enjoy!  And check out the Existential Comics Frank mentioned on Epictetus! https:\/\/existentialcomics.com\/comic\/264  If you can and are interested in early episodes and the Here Be Extras, check our Patreon! https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/leftpage&amp;nbsp; Also! If you're not there already, feel free to join our Discord, as we have been more talkative than usual, and plan to do so more and more! https:\/\/discord.gg\/J2wgG3yrPN  Intro Credits: Ultralounge, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Outro Credits: Leve Palestina, Spartacus  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com\/privacy for more information. ","author_name":"The Left Page","author_url":"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/c\/leftpage","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/40388730\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/199461025"}