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The world awaits a new Caesar, a new Napoleon, a new conquerer who sweeps aside the old order of things. I don't mean Hitler; I don't mean Trump, either, since Hitler failed and his changes were undone, and Trump seems likely to fail, too. I mean a successful conqueror, a successful Emperor. You can see that the old order of things in the West is senile and incompetent, barely being held together. It awaits the next Great Man who comes along and brushes it all aside. I believe he is probably coming soon. He may already be here, we just don't recognize him yet.

History. Lots and lots of history. You need to be versed in the travails and troubles of other great leaders so that you can avoid their mistakes and replicate their successes.

If you would conquer the world, read history.

>>22628594
It's literally just Napoleon.

When are you people going to realize that all your supposedly brilliant philosophers and aesthetes of the 19th Century were doing nothing more than craving Napoleon's cock? Nietzsche, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx, Kierkegaard, all their concepts and ideas can literally just be boiled down to, "Napoleon is cool as shit, how do I interpret this philosophically?".

This is why Carlyle and his Great Man Theory of History is the only rational thing to come out of the 19th Century, because Carlyle didn't bother wasting time with trying to sublimate Napoleon into some other idea or concept.

Remember that hilarious paper that "proved" that there was no firm historical evidence for Napoleon, and he was probably a myth? Is it online? Does anyone have a link to it?

>>22044876
So... we need a new Napoleon, is what you're saying.

>>21862894
The trouble is that this is exactly the attitude that leads to "nothing ever happens." The reason nothing ever happens, the reason it's always "two more weeks," is because people aren't willing to risk their reputations, their treasure, and their lives in pursuit of another world. We're too comfortable these days, and our comfort has not yet been sufficiently dislodged to stir us to do something outside the ordinary (though that may change in the next few decades). For something to happen, for the nature of things to be altered, somebody has to be willing to risk something. Their money, their standing in society, even their life. And ideally more than one somebody.

So the real question is: once you have the ideology, do you have the nerve? Do you have the will to see it through?

>"Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war."
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Books on the campaigns of those great generals?