From The Irish Times on stoicism
“Lttle did Zeno of Citium know that 2,300 years after he founded Stoicism in the street-schools of Athens, fragments of his thought would be passed around Silicon Valley by latte-swilling millennials as though he were the oracle himself.”
There can be good and bad to any philosophical thought. I think the good of stoicism is it helps you to look at the world plainly and clearly. I think that bad of it is allows you to to deliberately kill yourself. That is a sin.
In US culture, Ernest Hemingway may be the most famous stoic in the art world and appears to have killed himself while on heavy psychiatric drugs and maybe too much booze.