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The Eternal War | As Rome Burns | The Art of Being a Man
Historical Context of JFK's Speech:
The Kennedys and other elite figures threatened the mafia and paid with their lives for trying to prevent the rise of the Mob State, from the late 1950s into the late 1960s:
How the Praetorian Guard ruled Rome for three centuries:
This distributed language network engages in continuous prediction, contextual interpretation, and integration of semantic, syntactic, and prosodic information, allowing for the rapid and efficient processing of spoken and written language.
Witness the shocked look on the face of an insane woman and/or a weak male who’ve been antagonizing a fight, when they get punched in the face. The look on onlookers faces as they watch power drop the antagonizer to the ground unconscious with a single blow.
"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day." – JFK, Speech on Secret Societies, 27 April 1961 - Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City
POWER | Doctrine | The Eternal War is a deadly and destructive ideological conflict fought over the concept of whether or not the individual should or should not be forced to serve others.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” ― Frederick Douglass
The Roman Empire, which at its height controlled vast territories across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, split into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) in 285 AD under Emperor Diocletian. This division was formalized in 395 AD when Emperor Theodosius I divided the empire between his two sons. The Western Roman Empire, centered in Rome, fell in 476 AD, while the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium), centered in Constantinople, went on and continued to exist for another thousand years, until 1453.
Friends ruined men making them believe men need to be kind, weak, and emasculated barely functional idiot children who bumble through life the best they can until a woman, who’s exhausted every other option finally settles and chooses them, if she chooses them.
"The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses." – Aristotle, Metaphysics (Book 1, Part 1)
The French Revolution was a surprise to the rulers and the nobility of France because they did not believe that the people could rise against them and that they were invincible. They were blind to the sufferings and discontent of the people, and they did not realize the strength of the revolutionary ideas that were spreading among the people.
Our fellows, they did not lay down their lives so we would go on and deny ourselves love and living. Not a one would wish for us to stop being alive, so very alive, in their name. In fact, this would and does only dishonor the life they lived fully and the sacrifice they made willingly, knowingly.
Definitions of self-rule.
Nothing makes us more uncomfortable than fear. And we have so many fears: fear of pain, disease, injury, failure, not being accepted, missing an opportunity, and being scammed, to name a few. Fear invokes the flight or fight system, and our first reaction is often to flee back to our comfort zone. If we don’t know the way back, we are likely to follow whoever shows us a path. 
The relation admits of sundry gradations. Remembering that originally the slave is a prisoner whose life is at the mercy of his captor, it suffices here to note that there is a harsh form of slavery in which, treated as an animal, he has to expend his entire effort for his owner's advantage.
The modern way of war presupposes massive manufacturing, logistics and funding, replaceable everything, to include personnel, sourcing of skilled individuals from many different communities and populations...unrestricted freedom of movement - unhindered logistics... To say nothing of the heavy reliance on expensive and difficult to operate, maintain and slow to replace complex warfighting and warfare systems with components sourced from many different communities.
It doesn't matter who one is, what background they posses, if they are of that mere 1 to 3% of a population willing to knowingly and instantly resort to lethal violence. Even these are confronted with immense limitations placed on individuals in the face of severe civil unrest, civil war, or societal collapse. 
1. Unreliable performance: Mercenaries prioritize their own safety and financial interests over the objectives of their employers. This leading to subpar performance, desertion, and even switching sides if the opposing party offers better terms.
To master all Seven Elements of Power it's necessary to learn the mind of those who're truly proven as adept in each Element. We don't have to agree with everything they say, but we do need to learn how they think through complex space that is the domain or are the domains in which they've hard earned mastery over long stretches of experience and thought.