What is with nerds reading Art of War all of a sudden
It's a book about how to load stuff onto a horse, it's only philosophical or motivational if you strip it of literal meaning
"Fight your enemy with your back to the sun". Ah yes this is clearly about achieving business success by remembering where I came from. No you cretin it's about not being blinded by sunlight when you shoot a guy with a longbow
Book from an era when people needed to be told tactical advice like "outnumber your enemy it makes it easier to win" is now being taken as some kind of guide to socialization by PMC dude bros who think every relationship is transactional and every person is someone you need to compete with.
Book from an era when people needed to be told tactical advice like “outnumber your enemy it makes it easier to win”
You'd think that but the myth of having superiority based around an elite group of soldiers persisted throughout history and even today, to the point that Americans realy believe 1 US Marine = 100 Afghan/Iraqi soldiers. Heck you could go further and point out the entire rhetoric by the Nazis/US against the USSR in WW2 is explicitly denying this fact by dismissing it as "human wave" tactics. Even more pathetic when they start saying the same about Russia and China's army today.
Even the US don't really believe it, they just shift focus to having the most logistics and ordinance (and the looting of the Military Industrial complex is eroding even that)
Going to keep only the Art of War, How to Make Friends and Influence People, and Infinite Jest on my bookshelf. The success-win depressed graduate student mindset.
Yeah all my coworkers recommend it and say it's useful for business stuff
Did Joe Rogan tell people to read it? It's literally a book of 5th century BC military tactics. The only universal advice it gives is that you should probably make plans before doing something.
It's also an incoherent collection of incomplete fragments since the bindings in medium it was originally written on had all decayed leaving a bunch of broken bits that don't clearly fit together.
The only broadly applicable bits are the handful of lines that everyone knows anyways, the ones about not fighting unless absolutely necessary and that you should be aware of what you and your opponent are capable of. Well that and the insistence on logistics, like half of it is just variations on "and remember to pack a lunch."
What is with nerds reading Art of War all of a sudden
It's a book about how to load stuff onto a horse, it's only philosophical or motivational if you strip it of literal meaning
"Fight your enemy with your back to the sun". Ah yes this is clearly about achieving business success by remembering where I came from. No you cretin it's about not being blinded by sunlight when you shoot a guy with a longbow
Book from an era when people needed to be told tactical advice like "outnumber your enemy it makes it easier to win" is now being taken as some kind of guide to socialization by PMC dude bros who think every relationship is transactional and every person is someone you need to compete with.
You'd think that but the myth of having superiority based around an elite group of soldiers persisted throughout history and even today, to the point that Americans realy believe 1 US Marine = 100 Afghan/Iraqi soldiers. Heck you could go further and point out the entire rhetoric by the Nazis/US against the USSR in WW2 is explicitly denying this fact by dismissing it as "human wave" tactics. Even more pathetic when they start saying the same about Russia and China's army today.
Even the US don't really believe it, they just shift focus to having the most logistics and ordinance (and the looting of the Military Industrial complex is eroding even that)
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Going to keep only the Art of War, How to Make Friends and Influence People, and Infinite Jest on my bookshelf. The success-win depressed graduate student mindset.
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authoritively insist infinite jest is a jokebook
Yeah all my coworkers recommend it and say it's useful for business stuff
Did Joe Rogan tell people to read it? It's literally a book of 5th century BC military tactics. The only universal advice it gives is that you should probably make plans before doing something.
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unless you are a warlord in which case art of war is self help
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I think it's always been the dumb guy's idea of what smart successful people read.
art of war has been a sociopathic business guy book for at least 40 years
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It's also an incoherent collection of incomplete fragments since the bindings in medium it was originally written on had all decayed leaving a bunch of broken bits that don't clearly fit together.
The only broadly applicable bits are the handful of lines that everyone knows anyways, the ones about not fighting unless absolutely necessary and that you should be aware of what you and your opponent are capable of. Well that and the insistence on logistics, like half of it is just variations on "and remember to pack a lunch."
I am now imagining Sun Tzu as someone's nagging mother
I bet 1000 ape NFT's that these dupes think "Tzu" is the last name
Yes but it makes them feel like a big strong tactical war guy to have it on the shelf
Disagree, some is still relevant:
flee strengths, strike weaknesses
the winner will be whoever makes the most calculations before the battle
it's better for your enemy to come to you than you to go to him