Jo Ellis Served Her Country. Then They Made Her A Target.

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. There's an old joke on the internet that says every day there's a trending topic on Twitter and your goal is to never be that topic, right?

You might think you want everyone to be talking about you. You might think you want the whole eyes of the world on you. But if they are, it's almost certainly because something really bad has happened or you screwed up in some huge way, or things are about to get real bad real fast. Like, imagine going to sleep and you wake up and you're trending nationwide, but it's because everyone thinks you're dead.

People are total strangers, are posting your photo, they're tying you to this tragedy, they're politicizing you and your identity, they're telling stories and lies about you that aren't true. They are incredibly angry. Imagine it's so extreme, so crazy that you have to record a proof-of-life video just to make sure the world knows you're still alive and and in the process try desperately to defend your name. And that actually happened to the person that I am talking to today. Joe Ellis is a Blackhawk helicopter pilot.

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