Your war, your weapons.
When I was sixteen, I started a phase where I would make my way through the supposed best that classic literature had to offer, authors like Darwin, Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, Emerson, Shakespeare, Plato, et cetera. And one of the books whose words I devoured was Sun Tzu’s Art of War.
Sun Tzu had perfected a perspective that I see often in this world: he did not concern himself with ideologies, he felt them reserved for higher authorities. His domain was dominating men, and if you too refuse to let practicality be clouded by ideals, you would do well to learn his tools.
Sun Tzu had perfected a perspective that I see often in this world: he did not concern himself with ideologies, he felt them reserved for higher authorities. His domain was dominating men, and if you too refuse to let practicality be clouded by ideals, you would do well to learn his tools.
posted by Anacryon at 1:59 PM
3 Comments:
If you excuse the seminary playing devil's advocate (since when did he need one?): Isn't Sun Tzu’s perspective an ideology?
I suppose, in the same way that it's a religion: technically, but not colloquially.
Fair enough.
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