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During the 16th century, an Italian man named Niccolò Machiavelli wrote a
political treatise titled: The Prince. It's main theme is how to get power, and
once you've got it; how to keep it.
The book's instructions apply to all forms of power whether in business, in
government, the military, the mafioso, school boards, investment banking,
and even religion and church management practices.
You might be surprised at the number and variety of famous, respectable
people who've been influenced by The Prince, not only in the past, but right
up to the very present. Machiavelli's book, like Sun Tzu's book The Art Of
War, is timeless.
However; there's a hitch. Machiavelli's ideas work best when employed by
monsters, i.e. sociopaths: because it's necessary to sacrifice integrity and
conscience to make them work; i.e. it's necessary to become cruel,
inhumane, and thoroughly indifferent to the principles of trust and honesty.
The word "Machiavellian" is in Webster's defined as: marked by cunning,
duplicity, or bad faith, i.e. not guided by, or showing a concern for, what is
right in respect to social norms and acceptable behavior.
In other words: it's not what's right that counts with Machiavellian
personalities; it's what works, viz: they practice a sort of moral flexibility.
The Bible describes heaven as a place of peace. I think it goes without
saying that Machiavellian personalities are not allowed there. For one, they
would make heaven unbearable for the decent folk. For another, they would
not fit in. And for another, their way of life would just end up turning heaven
into another Earth.
Pop Clock Update: 1,315 days have elapsed since beginning the thread. If
the figures in post #1 are within reason, then something like 77,034,015
new arrivals have checked into the fiery sector of hades since December 10,
2014.
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During the 16th century, an Italian man named Niccolò Machiavelli wrote a
political treatise titled: The Prince. It's main theme is how to get power, and
once you've got it; how to keep it.
The book's instructions apply to all forms of power whether in business, in
government, the military, the mafioso, school boards, investment banking,
and even religion and church management practices.
You might be surprised at the number and variety of famous, respectable
people who've been influenced by The Prince, not only in the past, but right
up to the very present. Machiavelli's book, like Sun Tzu's book The Art Of
War, is timeless.
However; there's a hitch. Machiavelli's ideas work best when employed by
monsters, i.e. sociopaths: because it's necessary to sacrifice integrity and
conscience to make them work; i.e. it's necessary to become cruel,
inhumane, and thoroughly indifferent to the principles of trust and honesty.
The word "Machiavellian" is in Webster's defined as: marked by cunning,
duplicity, or bad faith, i.e. not guided by, or showing a concern for, what is
right in respect to social norms and acceptable behavior.
In other words: it's not what's right that counts with Machiavellian
personalities; it's what works, viz: they practice a sort of moral flexibility.
The Bible describes heaven as a place of peace. I think it goes without
saying that Machiavellian personalities are not allowed there. For one, they
would make heaven unbearable for the decent folk. For another, they would
not fit in. And for another, their way of life would just end up turning heaven
into another Earth.
Pop Clock Update: 1,315 days have elapsed since beginning the thread. If
the figures in post #1 are within reason, then something like 77,034,015
new arrivals have checked into the fiery sector of hades since December 10,
2014.
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