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I was walking home from having breakfast & reading Milton at my local Wetherspoons, and and I saw picrel and Deida's the Way of the Superior man lying in a box of recycling outside a house. I am a student and live in an area filled with students, and also pakis. I can just imagine the loser that bought these books while he was at Uni to become powerful but was too lazy and zoomified to even bother reading them, and laughed to myself. Now, I long ago decided that these types of books are just slop for midwit gymbro and "entrepreneurs" escape the matrix type normgroids to buy because some pua on tiktok told them these are the two best books for young men to obtain muh power and influence. I will confess I read a bit of Deida's book when I was about 16 and bored of it quickly and got rid of it. I have never even bothered to glance at 48 Laws of Power but since it was lying there for the Binmen and in perfect condition I impulsively picked it up. Now I am not sure I will bother to read it as I have quite a lengthy list and am in the middle of 2 books at the moment, and I actually feel embarassed putting on my bookshelf but I don't know. I have read some of The Prince from a philosophical and historical perspective, is it just a rehash of Machiavellian ideas or is it a different beast entirely? What are /lit/'s thoughts on this tome of power?
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Couldn't even complete the first sentence, so I don't know
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>>24777328
The only people who read this are 105IQ, take that for what it's worth.
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>>24777331
Of your writing I mean, not the book
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>>24777331
>>24777335
You don't need to read my blogpost to provide your opinion, if you have one?
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>>24777328
Is this post satire?
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>>24777336
I didn't read the book either, but my opinion is that people who wish to weild power are usually compensating for something, and usually evil.
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>>24777328
>reading Milton at my local Wetherspoons
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>>24777328
Cool story anon
How can I subscribe to your blogpost?
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I think its appeal is the historical anecdotes. Don't read it as an instruction manual but as a warning on how retarded people in power are. Just read it nigga
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>>24777328
It's useful. Yes people call Greene a hack because it's been done before but so what? All he did was take Machiavelli, Gracian, Sun Tzu, Pere Joseph, Montaigne, etc., and give a condensed modern take on the whole thing.

He filters out the retards by not spelling out exact instructions. You learn by the historical examples he gives throughout the book. Every single retard who complains about this book says a version of the same argument; I read the book and don't feel powerful kek.

This is a book you read, meditate, AND take action. This book is useless without action. It's not all manipulation, you can use it to defend yourself. His book on the laws of human nature is also excellent.
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>>24778307
This entire thread is an advertisement, and the punch line is the books' theme: a sucker's born every minute, and confidence can be betrayed, trust broken.
If you want to be a shitty salesman, you lie to your customer. If you want to get caught cashing checks your mark called the bank on, hustle away.
Be aware: these are books for scammers, and they don't teach anything more effective than common sense. Liars get caught. Thieves get caught. These books teach you to be a liar and a thief, with all the dressing of Chicken Soup for the Shitheel.
When you pay for them, you've lent them support. If you want to be a prick, maybe that's fine, but it's gotten to the point that purchasing these kinds of books is an easy, simple thing for a society to flag and procedurally reject. Get ready.



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