/lit/ - Literature

What have you been trying to learn? How to be a virgin? lol jk

>>15143519
Each of the law is a chapter where the author tells stories (with an interpretation at the end) of real people who have transgressed and observed the law throughout history, and does a reversal at the end

>>15143519
A better book would be something like Dubliners by James Joyce, the short stories reveal so much about what it means to be human it's wonderful. You can also tackle his magnum opus Finnegans Wake, it contains within it all of human history and civilization. If you need help getting into it, might I recommend Campbells Skeleton Key?

>>15143519
That book is pretty surface level.

Kill your morals first with Stirner and then go out into the world and actually manipulate people instead of reading Robert fucking Greene

>>15143544
you do realize all of the finnegans wake discussion here recently is just astroturfing and paid for by some irish figurehead, stop buying into it

>>15143540
I intentionally do the exact opposite of all these fag tactics

>>15143558
kek

>>15143519
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bahlSV75s_Y

>>15143519
It's telling you what you want to hear, that's why it's so popular.

>>15143546
And as this guy says, it's surface level, just don't treat it as the be-all and end-all.

>>15143558
>True power comes from being good
the absolute cope

>>15143519
middle management fodder

>>15143540
48 laws in how to win short term petty power and never be of any lasting influence until the gig is up and you're dragged into the street to be hung from a lightpost

>>15143546
>>15144175
So what's better besides The Prince? Where can I go?

>>15145576
Do your own research and read history

>>15144175
Exactly this. It's a vague bunch of general phrases that appeal to a certain kind of disaffected people who believe you have to be cunning and manipulative to succeed.

>>15143519
Massive cringe, OP

>>15143519
you have to be over 18 to post in this website

>>15143853
Based

>>15145576
Real life is better than the Prince. Work for a corporate job and all of this will be second nature to you

>>15143519
How did you learn anything from this?
A friend of mine lent me it, unfortunately, not being part of a 16th century court, nor commanding an army, nor having any money or contacts in silicon valley I found no earthly or relevant application for any of the stories in it.
Really tried hard to see what's useful about it.

>>15146212
I've read all his books, except the latest. "A vague bunch of general phrases" seems to suggest that you haven't read anything he wrote.
>"who believe you have to be cunning and manipulative to succeed"
Another shit-tier take. Persuasion is done unconsciously by most people, without control at all. Why not master it? Besides, we live in an amoral world, and being moral in it is suicide.

>>15147274
>Persuasion is done unconsciously by most people, without control at all. Why not master it? Besides, we live in an amoral world, and being moral in it is suicide.

Based and truthpilled

>>15147274
read "never split the difference" to learn persuation from a guy with professional experience

>>15147274
>we live in an amoral world, and being moral in it is suicide.

megacringe

>>15147274
>Besides, we live in an amoral world, and being moral in it is suicide.

>>15147404
Seems interesting, thanks for the rec.

>>15147462
lmaooooo

>>15143519
Bunch of tumblr level sjw's in this thread.

Don't worry OP,
it unironically helped me process certain experiences, and figure out how to better protect myself from them happening again.

>>15146212
In the corporate world, it can be very useful. Eccentric, flamboyant, or shy personalities don't fare well in corporate or law field. Except if you are exceptionally talented.

>>15147211
That's why 48 laws of power is better than the prince. You can apply them even if you are a nobody.
On a larger scale, corporate world and Capitalism are dying. So the book and it's skills might not be useful in the future.

>>15148247
>corporate world and Capitalism are dying

OH NO NO NO

>>15148247
Which rules have you applied consistently in your own career?