Machiavelli - How the game of power is played, won and kept

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Johnny1975's blog article on Machiavelli.

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How can you know Machiavelli is reliable? Wouldn't he use his own deceptive tactics and feed faulty tactics to followers, for his own purposes?
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Supposedly, the book wasn't meant for release. It was meant as an audition tape, to impress a leader to hire him as a consultant.
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Adama wrote:
June 14th, 2018, 4:42 pm
Supposedly, the book wasn't meant for release. It was meant as an audition tape, to impress a leader to hire him as a consultant.
All part of the deception!
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Machiavelli's advice for nice guys.

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Winston wrote:
September 17th, 2016, 2:46 pm
Hi all,
For those of you who constantly expect politicians and businessmen and elites to have the same morals as the common people, and wonder why good honest people can't attain power or get elected, this explains why.

Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher in the 15th century who wrote "The Prince", a book that elites love because it tells them how to attain power and hold on to it. He is considered the father of modern politics. His book explains why people can't succeed in business and politics by being a nice guy. (Do you think the Rockefellers achieved their monopoly on oil by being nice to everyone?) It pontificates why rulers and elites cannot have the same morals as common people, and why they cannot govern effectively by being nice and good all the time. And it explains why politicians and businessmen can't be good, clean and honest all the time, like people want. Also it says that it's better to be feared than loved if you are in power.

Machiavelli also states that one should not focus on what they believe society should be, but on how it is, so that one can deal with it more realistically. In other words, "get real" is his point. He wants you to drop any idealistic notions that will never work in reality. In his book "The Prince", he explains how to attain power and how to keep it, also how to control your subjects by fear, and how to divide your people and pit them against each other to prevent them from uprising against you.

Here are some short animated videos about Machiavelli's philosophy and teachings.





Here is the full audio book for "The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli.

Great post!!!
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