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The principles of warfare are often regarded as barbaric. People dismiss them as crude and unwelcoming to the human spirit and complexity of the world. Why would someone spend so much of their lifetime and thought in trying to find ways to end someone else, let alone a whole nation?
Well, to some degree, I’d argue that these principles are anything but dismissive of human nature. We tend to separate those we encounter into either them or us. Evolutionary clannish thinking.
Therefor much like nations that treat the world as a chessboard, we aswell intrinsically treat our lives simply like this. Our memory is but a massive story unraveled with good and bad people, and with us or whatever else we focus on as the protagonist.
If you want to live in a nation, you really should acknowledge the underlying reasons behind its success and what it does. It’s philosophy. Things don’t simply happen. And you can come to find, perhaps disturbingly, that even the most disgraceful and inhuman of acts were done under the simple human guise of survival and pursuit of happiness.
The only true evil is to be ignorant of such principles and to allow for the unnecessary death and suffering of beings.
The world ironically would be most peaceful if all rulers and people followed the proper principles of warfare.
So in this way it is an art, in that it crudely embraces the pitfalls of humanity without disappointment but preparedness, and remarks upon the enemy as not evil but simply another obstacle. All under the goal of protecting the world we care about.
Even in the ugliest of matters, a great matter of beauty can be found if you really look. And sometimes that can disturbingly reveal its core is not so different from the honest pacifist ideas of many other philosophies, one most direct as Confucianism.
But yea, wars evil and bad and don’t do it. I DO NOT CONDONE WAR.
Well, to some degree, I’d argue that these principles are anything but dismissive of human nature. We tend to separate those we encounter into either them or us. Evolutionary clannish thinking.
Therefor much like nations that treat the world as a chessboard, we aswell intrinsically treat our lives simply like this. Our memory is but a massive story unraveled with good and bad people, and with us or whatever else we focus on as the protagonist.
If you want to live in a nation, you really should acknowledge the underlying reasons behind its success and what it does. It’s philosophy. Things don’t simply happen. And you can come to find, perhaps disturbingly, that even the most disgraceful and inhuman of acts were done under the simple human guise of survival and pursuit of happiness.
The only true evil is to be ignorant of such principles and to allow for the unnecessary death and suffering of beings.
The world ironically would be most peaceful if all rulers and people followed the proper principles of warfare.
So in this way it is an art, in that it crudely embraces the pitfalls of humanity without disappointment but preparedness, and remarks upon the enemy as not evil but simply another obstacle. All under the goal of protecting the world we care about.
Even in the ugliest of matters, a great matter of beauty can be found if you really look. And sometimes that can disturbingly reveal its core is not so different from the honest pacifist ideas of many other philosophies, one most direct as Confucianism.
But yea, wars evil and bad and don’t do it. I DO NOT CONDONE WAR.
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It would be better to just watch a video of best quotes from art of war if you really desperately want to learn something from this book but otherwise don't bother, it's just a funny book of quotes.
I do highly recommend you read this with a pen and paper close as there are a lot of things you can apply in day to day life that The Art Of War speaks about.
This is a very simple book to read, everything to clearly presented in points linked to each other. I do recommend you pay as much attention as possible to this, because although the language is simple and easy to follow, you can easily get lost and misinterpret the small details.
This is a very simple book to read, everything to clearly presented in points linked to each other. I do recommend you pay as much attention as possible to this, because although the language is simple and easy to follow, you can easily get lost and misinterpret the small details.