The scroll is the new Stoic temptation for your attention. Humans rest poorly because attention is siphoned by endless feeds. The algorithm predicts and amplifies impulses. Calm, recovery, and meaningful creativity fade while the device trains reflexive scrolling. Stoics taught that virtue depends on what is in our power: our judgments, choices, and attention. Marcus Aurelius urges living in agreement with nature; Epictetus names the will, prohairesis, as the seat of freedom. The modern algorith