Machiavellian - Morality vs Practicality , the loss of innocence
Reading the Prince has made me think about life more than when I read Robert Greene's 48 LAWS of POWER
IF you want to live in ignorant bliss leave now or you shall lose your innocence or something like that
Reading Robert Greene's Books and now the classics Machiavelli, has changed the way I view life, this thing is more dangerous than the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO !!!
BTW this is my own interpretation of The Prince and for now it is nothing but jargon and thoughts woven together with no cohesion read at your own risk
Okay, Let us begin.
"Men must either be pampered or crushed, because they can get revenge for small injuries but not for grievous ones. Any injury should be such kind that there is no fear of Revenge" - Niccolo Machiavelli in the Prince
I am sure, that though this is such an amoral statement there is a lot of truth in it. How many times have we suffered from people from small injuries ?
How painful did a slip of the tongue do to us (both what we said and what we were told). When we are insulted we shoot it right back at them. when someone bumps us, we get angry and want to bump them. And when someone has betrayed our trust, We want to destroy them. This is looking at the statement at our (self) perspective but what if we did the hurt ? what if we betrayed trust, what if we insulted them too much too deeply. What are we to expect ? Nothing but Revenge
That was looking at that at the personal level, now let us up it one notch. What if let us say we are professionals in our career and we are in a workplace environment. In a workplace environment, I am sure we all understand that we want a better job, position and basically better pay. We are competing against our colleagues (It maybe amoral to others, but that is the truth) and as I stated in the previous paragraph, we betrayed someone (consciously or unconsciously) ,deeply hurt someone or just piss them off. That someone will try to get revenge on you one way or another one by attacking you or basically ignoring you, the Former is the dangerous one. Let us say that someone gets promoted to say like your supervisor, well let us just say the consequences maybe your career.
Again let us push it further for those more ambitious, let us say that you are the owner of a Company. Let us say your business is construction, and there is a lucrative offer and you are competing against Company B that is almost as same as level as your company. Since it is a very lucrative offer or worse your possible savior from financial crisis, you bring out all the tricks to get that offer. In the end you do get that offer, but what happens to Company B ? especially if you used "dirty tricks" or if they badly needed that offer. You can say all is fair in Love and War and business is no. exception but i think we agree that is not what Company B will think. And if there is a possibility that they can grab the offer from you, do you think they will just leave you alone. By hook or crook or even luck they want to take that offer from you. The effects ? Financial Ruin
As a Christian this is wrong, but for practicality sake we should.
There are still many more examples I can give. But let me ask you
Poll
IF you want to live in ignorant bliss leave now or you shall lose your innocence or something like that
Reading Robert Greene's Books and now the classics Machiavelli, has changed the way I view life, this thing is more dangerous than the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO !!!
BTW this is my own interpretation of The Prince and for now it is nothing but jargon and thoughts woven together with no cohesion read at your own risk
Okay, Let us begin.
"Men must either be pampered or crushed, because they can get revenge for small injuries but not for grievous ones. Any injury should be such kind that there is no fear of Revenge" - Niccolo Machiavelli in the Prince
I am sure, that though this is such an amoral statement there is a lot of truth in it. How many times have we suffered from people from small injuries ?
How painful did a slip of the tongue do to us (both what we said and what we were told). When we are insulted we shoot it right back at them. when someone bumps us, we get angry and want to bump them. And when someone has betrayed our trust, We want to destroy them. This is looking at the statement at our (self) perspective but what if we did the hurt ? what if we betrayed trust, what if we insulted them too much too deeply. What are we to expect ? Nothing but Revenge
That was looking at that at the personal level, now let us up it one notch. What if let us say we are professionals in our career and we are in a workplace environment. In a workplace environment, I am sure we all understand that we want a better job, position and basically better pay. We are competing against our colleagues (It maybe amoral to others, but that is the truth) and as I stated in the previous paragraph, we betrayed someone (consciously or unconsciously) ,deeply hurt someone or just piss them off. That someone will try to get revenge on you one way or another one by attacking you or basically ignoring you, the Former is the dangerous one. Let us say that someone gets promoted to say like your supervisor, well let us just say the consequences maybe your career.
Again let us push it further for those more ambitious, let us say that you are the owner of a Company. Let us say your business is construction, and there is a lucrative offer and you are competing against Company B that is almost as same as level as your company. Since it is a very lucrative offer or worse your possible savior from financial crisis, you bring out all the tricks to get that offer. In the end you do get that offer, but what happens to Company B ? especially if you used "dirty tricks" or if they badly needed that offer. You can say all is fair in Love and War and business is no. exception but i think we agree that is not what Company B will think. And if there is a possibility that they can grab the offer from you, do you think they will just leave you alone. By hook or crook or even luck they want to take that offer from you. The effects ? Financial Ruin
As a Christian this is wrong, but for practicality sake we should.
There are still many more examples I can give. But let me ask you
Poll