A lot of people criticise politicians for being dishonest and always lie to the public,
in fact, most of us view politics as the dirtiest job out there and people who are on the top
of the pyramid have given up their morals to reach that position.
Thats true to certain extend, but the truth is that, thats the realty we live in, even
if we tend not to realise that.
In fact, almost every aspect of our society works in the same way but we tend to ignore
it because it makes us feel bad about ourselves.
Machiavelli says: How we live is so different from how we ought
to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn
the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
In other words, Machiavelli is trying to tell us is that, all of us has this ideal image
of how life should be, how the society should function, but the truth is that, thats just
an image in our mind that has nothing to do with the reality.
and if you do not deal with the reality as it is, you are not going to get far in life.
And thats probably explains why we have so many bad politicians.
They lie because we want them to lie.
Who would you vote for, someone who will come and say: for the last 20 years, our productivity
has declined and thats why we are in this economy crisis, so in order to get out of
it, we have to increase our working hours and cut the salaries to cover the deficit,
and in in 5 to 10 years, once my term is obviously over, the country will be out of this recession.
On the other hand you have someone who is saying: You dont to worry about anything,
you dont have to worry where the money is going to come from, this country is great
and the people of this country deserve a better life and once I get elected, in a matter of
days, you all will get what you deserve
Who do you think will get more votes?
Of course everyone will vote for the second candidate.
An honest politician will never have stand a chance to win.
We are lazy, we want to believe in fantasies rather than accept the reality.
And politicians perfectly understand that, so they are simply telling people what they
want to hear.
In fact, we use the same strategy occasional to seem polite.
We might lie to keep the relationship going, justifying it that its for the sake of the
family.
Or crush our competitors because we believe thats how “business” works.
You can keep arguing thats not right, but at the end of the day more people will click
on a video with the headline “get rich quick” or with some naked picture of a girl on the
thumbnail.
Thats just the truth.
Just look at the most poplar news or the videos.
I am not here trying to promote machiavellian ideas and convince you that you simply cannot
be a nice guy and the only way in life is through deception and manipulation.
The point is, you can be as good as you want, you can follow the morel principles as much
as you wish, but there will always be people who will use these machiavellian strategies
to take advantage out you.
If you do not understand and be aware of them, you will be crushed miserably.
In fact, you might appear as the bad guy no matter how honest you are.
As machiavelli says: “Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone
can see and few can feel.
Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”
No one knows how you feel or what you believe in, people trust what they see, and you can
make them see you as the most noble person in the world even if you are the completely
opposite.
I know that sounds absolutely stupid, but history is filled with examples where that
actually worked.
If you want to use these ideas, thats completely your choice, but no matter what a nice guy
you want to be, at least learn them, so that no one takes advantage out of you.
And now, its your turn, what do you think?
do you agree with machiavelli or the world we live on today is completely different?
I would to know your opinion.
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