Explain?..

After reading some posts by various public intellectuals like Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris and how some of them comments about how the general public gets swayed by unqualified leaders like Hitler and how the biggest threat towards freedom and individualism is the fact most people are blind sheep in following a charismatic smoothtalker..............

I have to ask why brainy people esp bookworms, "rationalist", educated people who got degrees in college, and most of all self-proclaimed intellectuals.........

CANNOT get how someone change the whole room of people simply with their charming presence? And esp Charisma that provokes people to continue fighting on when all is hopeless?

As an Audrey Hepburn fan, believe me hen I say seeing her onscreen in a movie often brings a peaceful atmosphere and you feel charmed as you watch her talk during a scene.........

I finished Masada last night and that miniseries is what inspires this queston...... Peter O''Toole has a certain bright radiant energy despite playing a weary old general. However the one scene that made me realize just why historical big events, alpha males were able to inspire a losing group who feels they are doomed to continue fighting on in a siege or continue working daily despite crap pay to gradualy improve the economy or refusal to betray their oaths tot he state despite promised execution....... Now I understood after seeing it why an entire nation followed Adolf Hitler.........

Was when Peter O'Toole was given new orders to go back to Rome as another general replaced him. This new general was doing a most heartless unbelievably brutal tactic-he got a bunch of local Jewish people and started throwing them at the Jewish fortress like they are boulders. He warns towards Peter Strauss who plays the Jewish general who defends the fortress that if he doesn't surrender soon, he will continue catapulting local Jews at the fortress and all the blame for their deaths will be pinned on him since he is the commander.

Peter Straus went ona breakdown and was about to surrender...... When ironically of all things, Peter O'Toole after hearing the horrifying cries of Jewish people as they scream in terror and pain each time they were catapulted.......... Suddenly rushes out with a sword from his tent as he was preparing his baggage under intent of returning to Rome. O'Toole's Roman general as mentioned is a tired old man-he fought multiple wars for the Empire under the genuine belief of civilizing the barbarian lands and bringingg a permanent stable peace through the EUropean conteinent and the nearby Middle Eastern territories...... He was so hardened and exhausted from war he no longer beleives in his holy cause of Pax Romana and he has grown cynical after seeing so much treachery in Rome and backstabbing and corruption in the military ranks (he even had some officers sent to death forr breaking the peace with Jews)........... He already just wanted to give all up and drink wine at his villa in Rome because he's just that pessimistic and cynical.....

Of all things as he exists his tent he screams "this is not Rome! This is not the ROme I fought for the Emperor!" as he runs out of his tent with his sword and reaches the general.....

He yells at the general to get of HIS THRONE for he is not worthy of it. The general ordes his German bodyguards to arrest him when O'Toole bursts out anyone who wishes to live *stay in your place!**. Just at that moment evne though its just acting, I felt an incredible energy,a charismatic man I fear......... But at the same time I'd trust ont he spot to handle my bank account if he were to promise to watch over it and not use a single penny......... Someone I'd even trust my own life over....

O'Toole yells out "we are not barbarians!" and then asks a few of his troops who is the real general. They all yell loyalty to O'Toole and readily accept him back. The general realized at that point he had lost and just left. You can even see on his face he felt shocked at how regally powerful O'Toole's performance was.

Honestly I at that scene finally understand why people followed Hitler despite his raving lunacy. I would have honestly followed O'Toole's Roman generals without hestiation and march to my death across a bunch of arrows flying at me if I was a soldier in the siege.......

Before I go on, one of the movie stars Peter O'Toole had acted with in his glorious career is my favorite movie star ever Audrey Hepburn, in the movie How To Steall a MIllion. That film was one where the two leads just oozes style and charisma......

Audrey Hepburn...... She is simply legendary for her spellbounding charm and a peaceful ppleasant energy she gives around to other people everytime she entersa room. Even before she became an actress, men and women were dazzled by her charisma and pleasant personality. I will stop here before I go on and on. Everytime I see a clip of her in her movies or an interview with her, I feel like the happiest man in the world. Like I met a a real servant of a Goddess, to exagerrate I met someone who the Catholic's Mary had chosen as her underling on Earth. Honestly it makes me wonder just how serene being in the presence of Jesus Christ might have been!

So I'd have to ask. Bringing bak Adolf Hitler, its common to see intellectuals rant on about how people are so stupid for choosing him as a leader and esp in the public education field (esp teachers below university level adn grade A student) and internet posters online, they cannot het why anyone would be so influenced by Hitler after seeing a speech of his.

And its not just Hitler and historical leaders, its common to see people online and even teachers irl rant about how modern kids are sheltered idiots for being swayed by the energy of people like Madonna and Brad Pitt. Often people in the education field and netizens and even irl intellectuals with multiple masters even PhDs don't understand at all about how Salma Hayek shoots out so much sex appeal or ther certain charm Elvis Presley is known to be around in person.

I'd have to ask why? Why is it so difficult for your typical intellectual person esp bookworms to understand why alpha jockish gangbangers and athletes can inspire loyalty by lesser nmen so mucch to inspire them to do his bidding including breaking the law? Why do so many of them immune tho the peaceful presence someone like Pope JOhn Paul II gives out not just in person but even in footage caught on tape?

What is exactly about the intellectual mind that makes them bash commoners as stupid sheep when they follow people with invigorating energy that infects others including historical leaders like Richard I of England the Lionhearted and Napoleon Bonaparte?

I noticed people have started saying "it is what it is." Like I should know? No one has ever described "It". Any theories? Clues?

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