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cyber-feline · 9 months
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Out of all chapters in Machiavelli’s The Prince, I did not expect the one that says: “DO NOT RELY ON MERCENARIES UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES” to be still relevant in our day and age, but I guess here we are?
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discobiscotto · 3 months
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No context for you, tumblr! Not yet!
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georgeplantagenet · 2 months
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...and such a one may, one day, make the perfect prince.
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philosophors · 17 days
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“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
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rayballs · 4 months
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The setting for Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games comes from influential Italian writer and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli's quote panem et circenses, referring to the bread and circuses needed to keep a ruled population stable. But while President Snow and the ruling class clearly understood how to keep a group of people dependent and subjugated through social order, they had less of a grasp on machiavellianism, apparently, as they ignored one crucial piece of The Prince, his most influential work. While Machiavelli acknowledged that a ruler could gain power via fear of the ruler, what Collins' villain did not understand was the way that Machiavelli believed a ruler kept power, which was actually through love. By relying too much on the textual meaning of bread and circuses, in the form of tesserae and the games themselves, they ignored the subtexual meaning the words held, that focused on the necessity of a ruler's providing for their subjects in order to keep a stable population. In this essay I will...
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Yep, sure thing Alberto. We all see how you "didn't miss him" 🧐
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avaford2009 · 8 months
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Barbie posters as Luca characters! https://www.barbieselfie.ai/
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machiavellli · 9 days
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Announcement:
⚠️ I WILL CHANGE MY USERNAME in machiavellli ⚠️
(from “heirofs1ytherin” to “machiavellli”) AND OVERALL THEME
(But I will still post about the Slytherin boys)
Hi!!🩷
Maybe I am making a huge fuss about this, but anyway, I just wanted to alert you in case you can’t recognize me anymore.
For the last couple of weeks I have been thinking about changing my overall theme, manly for two reasons:
I’ve always been in multiple fandom and this username it’s too one fandom oriented, as you may have noticed (I would switch to my old account, but I sadly got rid of it)
I’ve noticed that interacting with other fandoms with an account oriented on the Harry Potter fandom it’s harder, because the author of the quoted books, as we may all know, it’s not a nice person (we all know what she says online).
And I would like to add, that, during the Sanremo event, I think I almost got banned, not because I said something offensive, but just for how my account appears. I am kinda tired to get attacked for stuff I have no control over.
Also, I was very indecisive between different usernames, but in the end I pick out machiavellli since he is one of my favorites authors and also object of my research for the last couple of years.
I’ll be probably changing it already in the next couple of hours and so my profile picture, which is going to be this one:
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And here I’m tagging all of my mutuals because I don’t want to lose them, I’m still Celeste, sorry to bother you all so much🥲🩷🩷
@moonschocolate @theeslutintheroom @annaisabookworm @slytherinslut0 @stvrlightt69 @finalgirllx @pxtter-s @suugarbabe @hp-hcs @pizzaapeteer @thatdammchickennugget @marriinachoo @ashisgreedy @theostrophywife @doremimosasol @pinklittleflower @berryzxx @jayybugg @njutul @gufu-vire @cash-111 @shiftingwithmars
(Also, if you want to know more about Niccolò Machiavelli, you can click the link I put almost everywhere)
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"Wer seine Bequemlichkeit für die anderer aufgibt, verliert die seinige, ohne dass man ihm dafür dankt."
- Niccolò Machiavelli, Brief an Francesco Vettori, 10. Dez. 1513
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nicklloydnow · 6 months
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“THE BORGIAS AND THE MAFIA
In 1455, the Holy See was occupied by Alfonso de Borja, a descendant of this eighth knight, under the name Callixtus III. Having gained the trust of King Alfonso Il of Naples, he came to power at the age of seventy-seven, while suffering from stomach cancer. His pain made him suspicious. He believed only in the loyalty of his Spanish family. Through the legacy of inheritance, his fortune fell into the hands of Rodrigo Borgia, who used it to fund his own ascension to the papal throne. Thus was born the first Mafia clan in history.
The Borgias possessed an absolute thirst for power. Europe had, by then, lost all hope in the goodness of God: the plague known as the Black Death had made miserably clear just how precarious human life can be, and with the bitterness of an orphan deprived of its supreme father, the populace consoled itself by indulging in carnal pleasures. It was in this context that Rodrigo Borgia, now Pope Alexander VI, began trafficking in a very powerful drug: papal bulls, which granted the forgiveness of sins . . . Every citizen could murder, steal, gamble, engage in prostitution or incest or unbridled gluttony, and all without fear: because in exchange for a handful of ducats, the Church offered absolution and the assurance that God would welcome the sinner into heaven.
The Borgias' passion for life, for dominance over all mankind, their disdain of any divine retribution, this absolute lack of morality, offset by their staggering appreciation of fine art, utterly captivated me. Knowing that the respectable Church of today once had a Spanish adventurer at its roots, a clever thief who was surrounded by his bought-and-sold lovers and by his children, each embodying a spiritual summit as well as an abyss - Cesare, strength and tyranny; Lucrezia, beauty and lust; Giovanni, intelligence and vanity; Gioffre, purity and stupidity - reminded me of the lotus plant, whose bright flowers spring from filthy swamps . . . And so I yielded to the temptation to write a comics script: in the form of a vast historical fresco on the creation, growth, and death of this provocative family, so similar to some of the people currently governing our planet.
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In place of the Black Death, we have cancer and AIDS, along with pollution of our air, our water, and our planet. Instead of cities at war, we are witness to entire countries fighting. Christianity and Islam remain in conflict even today. The discovery of the Americas has now become interplanetary exploration. We're experiencing the artistic revolution of the Renaissance through personal computers and the Internet. The papal bulls of yore are today's commercial "benedictions" from the United States. Just as the ducat was the key to paradise during the Renaissance years, our only God is the almighty dollar: whether its value goes up or down and the gates of heaven open or close . . . Just as Machiavelli, in his book The Prince, recommended aggressive invasions to achieve Italian unity, in this day and age a powerful nation (that shall remain nameless) ruthlessly attacks any country, claiming to obstruct "Evil" but spurred on, in fact, by its thirst for oil . . . Today, the Borgias have been replaced by oil mafias, pharmaceutical industry multinationals, drug cartels, and greedy bankers.
And yet, the corruption that flourished during the Renaissance could not prevent the emergence of a Leonardo da Vinci, a Raphael, a Botticelli, a Michelangelo, a Dante, a Machiavelli even, as well as so many others who opened up new vistas to human awareness. This is what brings us great hope: the possibility that the decadence of the world today is just the pain of a chrysalis becoming a butterfly, and that from the last vast crisis into which we plummet a new humanity will arise, one that will look upon us with the same tender compassion we feel for the monkeys.
—Alejandro Jodorowsky
August 2011”
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calekinnieplus · 6 months
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Academy's Undercover Professor sort-of review?? Lol (Part 1) (because there's a photo limit apparently)
A few days ago, I binged another manhwa in two days. What do I have to say about Academy's Undercover Professor? MC IS SO DAMN HOT???? AND BADASS??? SIGN ME UP!
(Kind of out of context spoilers if you didn't read it and plan to? Like, just screenshots of MC? But I also comment them, so expect spoilers there lmao)
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He's DAZZLING
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Scary bastard
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Low bun, yes sir 🫠 he's sad here, but he's so charming... hot damn
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And his internal monologue is funny lmao
"Shounen protagonist," says the MC about a Harry Potter-esque character. Literally, the adventures of that trio really give me a Harry Potter vibe
I mean??
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Look at that kid lmao dollar store Harry Potter at your service. Like, at this point, the similarities are funny to me
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If I had a nickle for every time a fictional character borrows Moriarty’s name, fully knowing who James Moriarty is, I'd have two nickles. Which isn't a lot, but it's funny that it happened twice. Albeit, Klein only used the Moriarty part. The first name was stolen from Sherlock in his case
Even so, I bet Rudiger is not the first nor last character to do this. I fully endorse it heh. It's amusing to me
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EPIC PANEL! SLAYYYYY (literally)
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Professor Rudiger Chelsea, please have some mercy on us poor folk 😢 you're just too stylish
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Yassss king! Be an underworld kingpin slayyyy <33
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Majestic. Absolutely majestic man.
WAIT WHAT, 10 PHOTO LIMIT?? I HAVE MORE SCREENSHOTS, I'm making a part 2 lmao
ANYWAY, you get the idea. I am infatuated with this man. Nothing unusual.
Storywise, the twists and turns are really entertaining. I looked into the novel, if it was worth a read after LOTM. A lot of reviews aren't that kind, citing it is repetitive and cliché, but if it's done right, I enjoy that type of stuff. So I'm letting it marinate a bit, so it can have a good translation lmao
I adore smart, badass MCs, so this seems like my cup of tea. It's really interesting how we're 60 chapters in and we still don't know Rudiger's real name, only past fake identities. And those identities are impressive! He's like a jack of all trades, it keeps things interesting
Also, the fact that he needs to be cautious on multiple fronts really adds a bit of anxiety in the mix, it keeps me on my toes.
(His poker face is hilarious lmao)
INCOMING PART 2
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chaotic-history · 2 months
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I have discovered the strangest thing
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georgeplantagenet · 5 months
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"Confession and lies are one and the same. In order to confess, one tells lies. One cannot express what one is, for that is precisely what one is; one can communicate only what one is not, that is, lies. Only in the chorus there may be a certain truth."
— Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923.
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philosophors · 5 months
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“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli, “The Prince”
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classicothon · 8 months
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"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
-Niccolò Machiavelli
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