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>Be a cunt

Wow great advice Mac

>> No.12484859
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12484859

You didn’t actually take my advice seriously, did you?

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>>12484859
Please don't tell me you actually think The Prince was satire?

>> No.12484876

More like
>all people are inherently cunts, so be the best cunt you can

>> No.12484887

His advice is good for people who already have the skills and talents to succeed on their own merits, but are too held back by social and ethical conventions. The trouble is, everything thinks they are like that. A subhuman neckbeard reads Machiavelli and thinks "I'm a fucking talented genius, all I need to do is stop giving a shit about other people". Then he reads Nietzsche and thinks the same thing. The problem is that these people have no actual value to begin with. They are not being held back by social conventions - they are being held back by their inadequacies, which they are unable to recognize because they read books like this and it gives them an excuse to blame their problems on everybody else. You can't really blame Machiavelli (or Nietzsche, for that matter) because they were writing in a different time, and didn't expect their books to be read by coddled narcissists with liberal arts degrees.

>> No.12484894

>>12484887
Friend, I suggest you to not get angry at people who don't exist on the internet

>> No.12484911

>>12484894
Thank you for this

>> No.12484921

>>12484859
cringe

his advice is bad in places, but he clearly meant it

>> No.12484931

>>12484859
>it was satire
perfect pseud indicator

>> No.12484950

>>12484887
Good post

>> No.12485079

>>12484875
it's just a very overused meme

>> No.12485185

>>12484876
Maybe he was a ginger

>> No.12485190

>>12484931
why isn't it satire?

>> No.12485218

>>12484887
It's a book for kings. It would never apply to any pleb, either today or 500 years ago

>> No.12486590

>>12485218
If you think Machiavelli fetishized born nobility like kings, how do you explain his love for the Florentine Republic? Or his biography/fanboy love letter of Castruccio Castraccani or whomever, who wasn't born into nobility?

>> No.12486609

>>12486590
Well the real one was but his fictionalized versionwas more of a rags-to-riches story.