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Why would it go differently for you?

We get to see them up close.

We see how they treat people.

We see what their values are.

We see how it always goes.

And then what do we do?

We tell ourselves it will go differently for us.

It is almost incomprehensible that after eight years of working

for him, writing every word he publishes keeping his secrets, a young Eisenhower would write of his

boss, General MacArthur in 1935, that he would suddenly turn on me as he is all the others who have

ever been around him. He'd like to occupy a throne room surrounded by experts in flattery, Eisenhower said.

Except it was perfectly comprehensible as his own sentence reveals. If MacArthur eventually turned on

everyone around him, why would he not eventually turn on his most trusted aid? Seneca watched as

Nero slowly eliminated every rival and relative. Seneca even had to

remind him that it was impossible to kill every successor, and yet Seneca stuck with him, even as

Nero killed his own mother. When Nero's goons came to demand Seneca's suicide years later on their

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