Statist March and Adulation, But No Hope, Op 214

The movie Patton that chronicles the many WWII conquests of General George Patton ends with the statement:
“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. The conqueror rode
in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. And a slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and
whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.”
Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or those who come to mind from modern times. Life is short, God is eternal, and narcissism and hubris is for the unwise