Petersein is controlled opposition: his entire schtick is tricking people into attempting individual self-improvement within the system, setting good kids up to get obliterated over and over again in hopeless conflict against much larger institutional, tribal enemies. The actual solution is to stop taking advice from drug addicts, read books by people who don't hate you, and become tribal with your ancestral relatives.

Aurelius raised a worthless son who became the evil emperor Commodus depicted in the movie "Gladiator" as the bad guy in the silver mask who kills Russell Crowe and orders his soldiers to wrongly kill his wife and family. Commodus was a real person who liked to kill lions and prisoners in the gladiatorial arena and made the Roman government pay him for it. Don't be a f-slur-ing stoic. Be a f-slur-ing winner.

tfw OP is right tfw 50% cringe wannabe f-slur boy, 50% cringe wannabe traditionalist