I am new to the site, but not new to the search but your post brings to mind the opening lines of "IF" by Rudyard Kipling.
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you"
Pioneers have to be a hardy breed because the frontier that they cross now is not the plains of the old west, but the unplowed and unfertilized field of the minds of the masses, and THEY DON'T LIKE IT.