The city has lost its mind. Marcus Aurelius has five rules for keeping yours — and one very practical reminder about the dishes.
A short pop-art film mixing Roman legionaries, office zombies, modern city chaos and darkly comic Stoic ideas:
• Control what you can.
• Protect your attention.
• Pause before reacting.
• Don’t become the monster.
• Do the work that remains.
Inspired by Marcus Aurelius’ Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse by Maurice Mem.
Explore the book: https://abvx.xyz/books/marcus-aurelius-zombie-apocalypse
This is a fictional, contemporary adaptation of the book’s ideas. The dialogue is not presented as a collection of historical quotations from Marcus Aurelius.
Created by Anton Biletskiy-Volokh / Lumière Noire with AI-assisted illustration, animation and synthetic character voices, plus human direction, editing and sound design.
Generic city traffic ambience: “High Street Evening Traffic” by Colonnades (CC0): https://freesound.org/people/Colonnades/sounds/805343/
Which rule is hardest to follow when everyday life starts looking like an apocalypse?
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