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[quote:CHRIST:MV8zMzQzOTI3XzYyMzA4MTk4X0NEOTk4MjQ4] [b]REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE 1967[/b] THE ST PETERSBURG ATTACK WRAPS A LOT OF MY RECENT MOVIE POSTINGS AND OTHER GODLIKE SUBMISSIONS. THE SMOKY-GOLDEN REFERENCE POINT, REFERENCED IN THE BOMBING VIDEO BELOW,HARKENS BACK TO THE GOLDEN TINT WE SEE THIS MOVIE IN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmXJx5Td1t8 BUT, I HAVE NOT ANSWERED THE QUESTION, WHY. I WAS NOT GOING TO POST ON THIS MOVIE, BUT HERE ARE MY THOUGHTS. THE MOVIE, BESIDES SUGGESTING ACROSS-THE-BOARD HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE MILITARY JUXTAPOSED WITH THE IMAGE OF HORSES, TOUCHES ON ONE OF THE 'ESOTERIC QUARTERLY' THREAD SUBJECTS, [u] INTANGIBLE [/u]IDEA WORDS (LIKE JUSTICE). IN THIS SCENE MARLON BRANDO PONDERS WITH HIS CLASS THE IDEA OF 'LEADERSHIP'. [i] Brando: He does not attack because his cause is just. He flees because he's the weaker, and he conquers because he's the stronger. Or more to the point, because his leaders made him feel stronger. Rommel... ...Patton, Marshall, MacArthur. They... They had it. How did they...? How did they make their troops believe that they were stronger? Leadership is [u]intangible[/u] (UNDERLINES BY BRANDO). It's hard to measure, difficult to describe. Leadership must include a measure of inherent ability... ...to control and direct self-confidence... ...based on initiative, loyalty to superiors... ...and a sense of pride. Pride. It's far easier to recognize a leader... ...than to define leadership in clear and in universally understood terms. Now... Is leadership learned? Is it taught? Is a man born with it? How did it come to Patton? Class dismissed. [/i] MACARTHUR DISPLAYS THIS INTANBIBLE LEADERSHIP QUALITY DURING HIS 1962 WEST POINT SPEECH, WHERE HE PONDERS 3 INTANGIBLE IDEAS, 'DUTY, HONOR COUNTRY'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_42_aLGkRpg AS A CIVILIAN, I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO ANSWER THIS BASIC QUESTION, HOW DOES AN ARMY HOLD TOGETHER, GIVEN ARDOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, OR QUESTIONABLE STRATEGY OR ORDERS FROM ABOVE. ALL THE MEN POSSESS ARMS. IN MOST FIGHTS, SOLDIERS WERE CONSCRIPTS. PERHAPS IT COMES DOWN TO SURVIVING OR PERISHING ON THE BOAT YOU RODE IN ON. PERHAPS THE SOLDIERS ARE TOO YOUNG TO KNOW THERE MAY BE OTHER WAYS OUT COLLECTIVELY, SUCH AS MUTINY AND NEGOTIATIONS. MACARTHUR HIMSELF ACKNOWLEDGES THIS PROBLEM. HISTORY SHOWS HE HELD IT TOGETHER. HIS SUCCESSES CONFIRM THE POWER OF PLATO'S CAPITALISM-COMMUNISM, AS INDIVIDUALS SACRIFICING FOR THE PHILOPSOHERS CITY AND ITS RULERS OVERT AND COVERT MORALITY. I SEE IT IN HINDSIGHT AS A GRAND CONJURING ACT. REALLY, IT COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED THAT WAY, EXCEPT IN THE BEING THAT WAS PLAYING TIN SOLDIERS ON HIS BED. I'D SHOOT THE SON OF A BITCHES, AS YOU WOULD. CHRIST [/quote]
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