>>11316547True philosophy is love of wisdom as the word etymologically means in Greek; therefore, is you that lacks this fundamental prerequisite, and are in all actuality ignorant of Marcus Aurelius and any other thinker. You are a pseud of the highest degree, undergraduate scum who may have indeed "studied" philosophy inasmuch as taking a test and selecting a few answers here and there. You had no real interest in it. Your cold, soulless absorption and subsequent utterances reflect a distorted picture that relays not the words of the men you have studied but your own worthless passions and desires. It is thus, that you are, guilty of what you accuse the meme of doing: defiling Marcus Aurelius.
Now, let us compare Marcus Aurelius's own words against the dishonest paradigm you have set up:
>When you have savories and fine dishes set before you, you will gain an idea of their nature if you tell yourself that this is the corpse of a fish, and that is the corpse of a bird or a pig; or again, that wine is merely grape-juice, and this purple robe some sheep's wool dipped in the blood of a shellfish; and as for sexual intercourse, it is the friction of a piece of gut and, following a sort of convulsion, the expulsion of some mucus.>Thoughts such as these reach through to the things themselves and strike to the heart of them, allowing us to see them as they truly are. So follow this practice throughout your life, and where things seem most worthy of your approval, lay them naked, and see how cheap they are, and strip them of the pretenses of which they are so vain. For pride is an ever-subtle deceiver, and it is just when you are most confident that you are engaged on serious matters that it most surely beguiles you. Consider, for instance, what Crates said about Xenocrates himself in this regard. 
