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@nierenstein @doctorsex no but it dovetails.
It's all one thing. The raison d'être of civilization is the stability of normal dudes.
A man like Alexander the Great will always be fine, but with no army he is nothing. He understood this on an internal natural level, often eating and living with his footmen, ie inferiors. Hitler and napoleon too were extremely concerned with their men, Hitler having been a grunt. Napoleon even rewarded his best surgeons. Without their legions of fanatics they would've been provincial footnotes.
Vitalists don't understand this, behind every great man there is a group of nameless goons, less notable, but fanatically driven to his cause. Jean, Fritz, and Metaxis Creto didn't kill for mo reason, they were cared for by their leaders. No man marches from Greece to Persia on abstract notions.