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If there is power in tapping into the fantasies of the masses, there is also danger.
Fantasy usually contains an element of play — the public half realizes it is being duped, but it keeps the dream alive anyway, relishing the temporary diversion from the everyday.
Fantasy usually contains an element of play — the public half realizes it is being duped, but it keeps the dream alive anyway, relishing the temporary diversion from the everyday.
February 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If there is power in tapping into the fantasies of the masses, there is also danger.
Fantasy usually contains an element of play — the public half realizes it is being duped, but it keeps the dream alive anyway, relishing the temporary diversion from the everyday.
Fantasy usually contains an element of play — the public half realizes it is being duped, but it keeps the dream alive anyway, relishing the temporary diversion from the everyday.
The world is plagued by greater and greater division — within countries, political groups, families, even individuals.
The modem world’s level of conflict is higher than ever, and we have internalized it in our own lives.
The modem world’s level of conflict is higher than ever, and we have internalized it in our own lives.
February 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The world is plagued by greater and greater division — within countries, political groups, families, even individuals.
The modem world’s level of conflict is higher than ever, and we have internalized it in our own lives.
The modem world’s level of conflict is higher than ever, and we have internalized it in our own lives.
The only kind of common touch that works is the kind affected by Franklin Roosevelt,
a style that said the president shared values and goals with the
common people even while he remained a patrician at heart.
He never pretended to erase his distance from the crowd.
a style that said the president shared values and goals with the
common people even while he remained a patrician at heart.
He never pretended to erase his distance from the crowd.
February 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The only kind of common touch that works is the kind affected by Franklin Roosevelt,
a style that said the president shared values and goals with the
common people even while he remained a patrician at heart.
He never pretended to erase his distance from the crowd.
a style that said the president shared values and goals with the
common people even while he remained a patrician at heart.
He never pretended to erase his distance from the crowd.
...the key here is Talleyrand’s ability to suppress himself in the conversation,
to make others talk endlessly about themselves and inadvertently reveal their intentions and plans.
to make others talk endlessly about themselves and inadvertently reveal their intentions and plans.
February 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
...the key here is Talleyrand’s ability to suppress himself in the conversation,
to make others talk endlessly about themselves and inadvertently reveal their intentions and plans.
to make others talk endlessly about themselves and inadvertently reveal their intentions and plans.
Change can be pleasant and even sometimes desirable in the abstract,
but too much of it creates an anxiety that will stir and boil beneath the surface and then eventually erupt.
but too much of it creates an anxiety that will stir and boil beneath the surface and then eventually erupt.
February 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Change can be pleasant and even sometimes desirable in the abstract,
but too much of it creates an anxiety that will stir and boil beneath the surface and then eventually erupt.
but too much of it creates an anxiety that will stir and boil beneath the surface and then eventually erupt.
Finally, the arts, fashion, and technology would seem to be areas in which power would come from creating a radical rupture with the past and appearing cutting edge.
Indeed, such a strategy can bring great power, but it has many dangers.
Indeed, such a strategy can bring great power, but it has many dangers.
February 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Finally, the arts, fashion, and technology would seem to be areas in which power would come from creating a radical rupture with the past and appearing cutting edge.
Indeed, such a strategy can bring great power, but it has many dangers.
Indeed, such a strategy can bring great power, but it has many dangers.
Not only is a man not obliged to be grateful, gratitude is often a terrible burden that he gladly discards.
February 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Not only is a man not obliged to be grateful, gratitude is often a terrible burden that he gladly discards.
Part of the charm of being seduced is that it makes us feel engulfed, temporarily outside of ourselves and the usual doubts that permeate our lives.
The moment the seducer hesitates, the charm is broken.
The moment the seducer hesitates, the charm is broken.
February 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Part of the charm of being seduced is that it makes us feel engulfed, temporarily outside of ourselves and the usual doubts that permeate our lives.
The moment the seducer hesitates, the charm is broken.
The moment the seducer hesitates, the charm is broken.
When you destroy the familiar you create a void or vacuum;
people fear the chaos that will flood in to fill it.
You must avoid stirring up such fears at all cost.
Borrow the weight and legitimacy from the past, however remote, to create a comforting and familiar presence.
people fear the chaos that will flood in to fill it.
You must avoid stirring up such fears at all cost.
Borrow the weight and legitimacy from the past, however remote, to create a comforting and familiar presence.
February 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
When you destroy the familiar you create a void or vacuum;
people fear the chaos that will flood in to fill it.
You must avoid stirring up such fears at all cost.
Borrow the weight and legitimacy from the past, however remote, to create a comforting and familiar presence.
people fear the chaos that will flood in to fill it.
You must avoid stirring up such fears at all cost.
Borrow the weight and legitimacy from the past, however remote, to create a comforting and familiar presence.
The weak are alone and must submit.
Fighting gives you nothing to gain but martyrdom,
and in the process a lot of people who do not believe in your cause will die.
Fighting gives you nothing to gain but martyrdom,
and in the process a lot of people who do not believe in your cause will die.
February 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The weak are alone and must submit.
Fighting gives you nothing to gain but martyrdom,
and in the process a lot of people who do not believe in your cause will die.
Fighting gives you nothing to gain but martyrdom,
and in the process a lot of people who do not believe in your cause will die.
Regal bearing should not be confused with arrogance.
Arrogance may seem the king’s entitlement, but in fact it betrays insecurity.
It is the very opposite of a royal demeanor.
Arrogance may seem the king’s entitlement, but in fact it betrays insecurity.
It is the very opposite of a royal demeanor.
January 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Regal bearing should not be confused with arrogance.
Arrogance may seem the king’s entitlement, but in fact it betrays insecurity.
It is the very opposite of a royal demeanor.
Arrogance may seem the king’s entitlement, but in fact it betrays insecurity.
It is the very opposite of a royal demeanor.
Dispersal is often suitable for the weaker side;
it is, in fact, a crucial principle of guerrilla warfare.
When fighting a stronger army, concentrating your forces only makes you an easier target —
better to dissolve into the scenery and frustrate your enemy with elusiveness.
it is, in fact, a crucial principle of guerrilla warfare.
When fighting a stronger army, concentrating your forces only makes you an easier target —
better to dissolve into the scenery and frustrate your enemy with elusiveness.
January 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Dispersal is often suitable for the weaker side;
it is, in fact, a crucial principle of guerrilla warfare.
When fighting a stronger army, concentrating your forces only makes you an easier target —
better to dissolve into the scenery and frustrate your enemy with elusiveness.
it is, in fact, a crucial principle of guerrilla warfare.
When fighting a stronger army, concentrating your forces only makes you an easier target —
better to dissolve into the scenery and frustrate your enemy with elusiveness.
No revolution has gone without a powerful later reaction against it,
for in the long run the void it creates proves too unsettling to the human animal,
who unconsciously associates such voids with death and chaos.
for in the long run the void it creates proves too unsettling to the human animal,
who unconsciously associates such voids with death and chaos.
January 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
No revolution has gone without a powerful later reaction against it,
for in the long run the void it creates proves too unsettling to the human animal,
who unconsciously associates such voids with death and chaos.
for in the long run the void it creates proves too unsettling to the human animal,
who unconsciously associates such voids with death and chaos.
You can bypass the differences between you and him by appealing to his self-interest.
Do not be subtle:
You have valuable knowledge to share,
you will fill his coffers with gold,
you will make him live longer and happier.
This is a language that all of us speak and understand.
Do not be subtle:
You have valuable knowledge to share,
you will fill his coffers with gold,
you will make him live longer and happier.
This is a language that all of us speak and understand.
January 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
You can bypass the differences between you and him by appealing to his self-interest.
Do not be subtle:
You have valuable knowledge to share,
you will fill his coffers with gold,
you will make him live longer and happier.
This is a language that all of us speak and understand.
Do not be subtle:
You have valuable knowledge to share,
you will fill his coffers with gold,
you will make him live longer and happier.
This is a language that all of us speak and understand.
ff you want to tell lies that will be believed, don't tell the truth that won’t.
Emperor Tokugawa
Ieyasu of Japan,
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Emperor Tokugawa
Ieyasu of Japan,
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
January 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM
ff you want to tell lies that will be believed, don't tell the truth that won’t.
Emperor Tokugawa
Ieyasu of Japan,
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Emperor Tokugawa
Ieyasu of Japan,
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Abraham Lincoln['s imagoe] as a homespun country lawyer with a beard, made him the common man’s president.
[He] played the commoner but maintained distance.
If you play such a fantasy, you too must cultivate distance and not allow your “common” persona to become too familiar.
[He] played the commoner but maintained distance.
If you play such a fantasy, you too must cultivate distance and not allow your “common” persona to become too familiar.
January 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Abraham Lincoln['s imagoe] as a homespun country lawyer with a beard, made him the common man’s president.
[He] played the commoner but maintained distance.
If you play such a fantasy, you too must cultivate distance and not allow your “common” persona to become too familiar.
[He] played the commoner but maintained distance.
If you play such a fantasy, you too must cultivate distance and not allow your “common” persona to become too familiar.
Play a kind of con game
Preach change as much as you like, and even enact your reforms,
but give them the comforting appearance of older events and traditions.
Preach change as much as you like, and even enact your reforms,
but give them the comforting appearance of older events and traditions.
January 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Play a kind of con game
Preach change as much as you like, and even enact your reforms,
but give them the comforting appearance of older events and traditions.
Preach change as much as you like, and even enact your reforms,
but give them the comforting appearance of older events and traditions.
Because the world is and always has been full of insecurity and threat,
we latch on to familiar faces and create habits and rituals to make the world more comfortable.
we latch on to familiar faces and create habits and rituals to make the world more comfortable.
January 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Because the world is and always has been full of insecurity and threat,
we latch on to familiar faces and create habits and rituals to make the world more comfortable.
we latch on to familiar faces and create habits and rituals to make the world more comfortable.
If you have only won a partial victory, you will inevitably lose in negotiation what you have gained by war.
The solution is simple: Allow your enemies no options.
Annihilate them and their territory is yours to carve.
The solution is simple: Allow your enemies no options.
Annihilate them and their territory is yours to carve.
January 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If you have only won a partial victory, you will inevitably lose in negotiation what you have gained by war.
The solution is simple: Allow your enemies no options.
Annihilate them and their territory is yours to carve.
The solution is simple: Allow your enemies no options.
Annihilate them and their territory is yours to carve.
Another form of the fantasy of the exotic is simply the hope for relief from boredom.
Con artists love to play on the oppressiveness of the working world, its lack of adventure.
Con artists love to play on the oppressiveness of the working world, its lack of adventure.
January 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Another form of the fantasy of the exotic is simply the hope for relief from boredom.
Con artists love to play on the oppressiveness of the working world, its lack of adventure.
Con artists love to play on the oppressiveness of the working world, its lack of adventure.
Aware of the temporariness of her power, the king’s mistress would often go into a kind of frenzy after capturing the king:
She would try to accumulate as much money as possible to protect her after her inevitable fall.
She would try to accumulate as much money as possible to protect her after her inevitable fall.
January 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Aware of the temporariness of her power, the king’s mistress would often go into a kind of frenzy after capturing the king:
She would try to accumulate as much money as possible to protect her after her inevitable fall.
She would try to accumulate as much money as possible to protect her after her inevitable fall.
The opportunity for change and renewal seduces people to the side of the revolution,
but once their enthusiasm fades, which it will, they are left with a certain emptiness.
Yearning for the past, they create an opening for it to creep back in.
but once their enthusiasm fades, which it will, they are left with a certain emptiness.
Yearning for the past, they create an opening for it to creep back in.
January 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The opportunity for change and renewal seduces people to the side of the revolution,
but once their enthusiasm fades, which it will, they are left with a certain emptiness.
Yearning for the past, they create an opening for it to creep back in.
but once their enthusiasm fades, which it will, they are left with a certain emptiness.
Yearning for the past, they create an opening for it to creep back in.
Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.
They always think of their own case as soon as ever any remark is made, and their whole attention is absorbed by the merest chance reference to anything which affects them personally.
They always think of their own case as soon as ever any remark is made, and their whole attention is absorbed by the merest chance reference to anything which affects them personally.
January 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.
They always think of their own case as soon as ever any remark is made, and their whole attention is absorbed by the merest chance reference to anything which affects them personally.
They always think of their own case as soon as ever any remark is made, and their whole attention is absorbed by the merest chance reference to anything which affects them personally.
One last thing: Never make the mistake of imagining that fantasy is always fantastical.
It certainly contrasts with reality, but reality itself is sometimes so theatrical and stylized that fantasy becomes a desire for simple things.
It certainly contrasts with reality, but reality itself is sometimes so theatrical and stylized that fantasy becomes a desire for simple things.
January 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One last thing: Never make the mistake of imagining that fantasy is always fantastical.
It certainly contrasts with reality, but reality itself is sometimes so theatrical and stylized that fantasy becomes a desire for simple things.
It certainly contrasts with reality, but reality itself is sometimes so theatrical and stylized that fantasy becomes a desire for simple things.
Such is the power of artful spying: It makes you seem all-powerful, clairvoyant.
Your knowledge of your mark can also make you seem charming, so well can you anticipate his desires.
No one sees the source of your power, and what they cannot see they cannot fight.
Your knowledge of your mark can also make you seem charming, so well can you anticipate his desires.
No one sees the source of your power, and what they cannot see they cannot fight.
January 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Such is the power of artful spying: It makes you seem all-powerful, clairvoyant.
Your knowledge of your mark can also make you seem charming, so well can you anticipate his desires.
No one sees the source of your power, and what they cannot see they cannot fight.
Your knowledge of your mark can also make you seem charming, so well can you anticipate his desires.
No one sees the source of your power, and what they cannot see they cannot fight.