Confident in his duty to the American people and loyal to the commander in chief, Vice President Mike Pence simply refuses to crack.
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." —Marcus Aureliusfrom the near-insane mainstream news media, this time for not wearing a mask while visiting the Mayo Clinic. The purpose of his trip was to highlight the research being done there to combat the"Chinese coronavirus."
While the Greeks may have invented it, stoic ethics owe their contemporary understanding to the Romans, primarily Cicero, Seneca and, most famously, the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Aurelius', published after his death, forms the true foundation of our modern perception of stoicism. Before becoming vice president, Pence served as a congressman and as governor of Indiana. Long before 2016, Pence was considered a presidential candidate in his own right, and everything he has done over the past three-plus years has only strengthened that possibility in 2024 and beyond.
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