Book 4: Stoicism

Aura: Inhibition. Region: Liberia. Sign: yin.

The story

In Liberia, a Christian mission, The Order, strips the local tribes of their culture and their initiation rites.

The philosophy

It is not resistance, it is avoidance: the stimulus never arrives, it is not endured — denial of the body, not active discipline in the face of temptation.

The tensions

inhibition versus stimulation — In tension with: Hedonism.