Sublime

Hannibal shrewdly took advantage of the old pecking order rule: friends flock to the beast on the top; they abandon the beast on the bottom. Whenever the Carthaginian triumphed, he reduced his Roman prisoners to slavery. Since the Romans had been bolstered by armies of allies—troops from the conquered tribes of the Italian boot—the savvy commander

state surveillance, social credit systems, law subservient to the state, and centrally planned economic activity—will be embedded into the future of money, diminishing the vibrancy and health of the global economy, individual liberty, and human advancement.

He remains the foremost architect of political liberalism.

In an Army where Marshall depended on officers like Eisenhower and Bradley to do their jobs quietly, to conciliate, and to persuade, he required others like Smith who could hack a path through red tape and perform hatchet jobs.”

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The early twentieth-century philosopher of history Oswald Spengler captured this task when he described the ‘born’ leader as ‘above all a valuer – a valuer of men, situations, and things . . . [with the ability] to do the correct thing without “knowing” it’.[3]