This is a really great clip, powerful words by RFK Jr. He has endured a lot in his life.

More of us need to embrace and understand stoicism and harness the power that living with those tenets can provide. Victimhood is antithetical to stoicism but it prevails today as the most typical response to hardship.

We blame others for our inaction and mistakes, make excuses for ourselves whenever possible so that we don't have to accept or address our shortcomings.

No one is ever the author of their own suffering, no, you were put here by others who meant you harm and if not for them you would've been able to do all the things you didn't accomplish. You were held back by outside forces in the world and you can safely ignore the inner world and anything that happened there when you size up how you got to where you are today.

That's so diametrically opposed to stoicism and the inner strength it demands from those who follow that path. This country was made by tough people who never let themselves succumb to their circumstances and faced every next challenge with a brave face.

We are allowing our country to be unmade by people who desire to be pitied when they are wounded, who want rewards for the punches that life had them take, and use outward expressions of vulnerability and emotion to manipulate the situation to their own advantage. Listen to RFK Jr.

This is awesome!

He is motivated by service and was educated in philosophy. He references the Stoic philosophy.

Good summaries . . . pertinent today as he says! are: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antonius; Discourses of Epictetus Both are consistent with Christian morality.

BTW I love his skinny ties!

Trump saved you and your life work for humanity.