DarkRange55
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- Oct 15, 2023
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"Amateurs chase the sun and get burned. Power lives in the shadows."
This is a quote from Oppenheimer that I really love and it reminds me a lot of Machiavellian ideology. Machiavelli is somebody that I've read and studied a lot and I find fascinating. It's sort of this hard truth about life. In our society there's this illusion of visibility as success. We equate fame, attention, validation as success. Not even just on the grand. I'm not even just talking celebrities in Hollywood. I'm also talking even things like in your high school, in your friend groups. It seems that the person that has the most overall attention for whatever reason, we equate that with success. And you have to understand this idea of chasing the sun is an ego-driven thing. It's your ego that wants the applause from others. You need this sort of external proof of worth, which is actually a sign of insecurity rather than something like strategy.
Strategy would be playing the fool. Play a fool to catch a fool. That's what you need to understand. You never ever want to show your true intentions or what you're capable of to other people. You know, Robert Greene talks about that in the laws of power, but really he copied that from Machiavelli. You need to understand that every time that you're showing the world who you are and what you're capable of, you're going to be seen as a threat. And I know a lot of people might read this and be like, "Well, that's like we're not in the medieval times," you know, but it's very true even for social spheres. It's very true in the workplace. You always want to appear dumber than you actually are. You never want to let someone know your true intentions. You want to be behind the scenes making the moves and nobody fully knowing because the truth is is that exposure invites control. The more visible you are, you become more predictable. You become more monitored and people are going to try to actively manipulate you. Attention places you under influence and that's just not needed. Why would you want that? You have to basically overpower your own ego, your own desire to be seen and focus solely on the task at hand, which is positioning yourself in the best place possible.
If you want to work your way up at whatever workplace you're at, never let anybody know the things that you're doing in order to get there. It's it's just never going to help. And I know people are going to be like, "It's not that deep." But trust me, even even me having had worked many jobs that were like not corporate, but they were like temporary or entry level or random or whatever it is, and I was trying to work my way up when I was younger to get paid more.
I realized that whenever people would tell other people any information, it would just go and somehow find its way back to the boss or whatever and it would have nothing to do with them and so it would just overall sort of their own image. And it's like if people will do it at the smallest scale like that, I'm telling you for a fact they will do it on a greater scale. Even when it's not something like your profession on the line, even when it's something just like social currency. People love to expose you because it gives them a sense of selfworth.
True power always operates quietly. The people that are really pulling the strings in the world, the ones that are the elites, you know, the group of people that's controlling us, we don't even know their names. Only ignorant people sit there and say, "Oh my god, Trump, oh, it's he's so bad. Biden, oh, he's so bad." you know, whatever president is out there, what you know, who whatever politician or Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. This is this is low IQ activity to believe that those are the ones that are really pulling the strings. They're not. They're like the puppets. They're the instruments that are being used. I'm not saying they don't have power. They do, but they're not the big dogs. The big dogs never show themselves. When you reveal yourself, you are putting yourself in harm's way. You're exposing yourself. Real power always operates in silence. Mchaveli tells us this. Robert Green tells us this. You never want to expose your true intentions. And so the shadows will be your greatest ally. When you stay unseen, it allows freedom of movement, adaptability, control over timing. You control everything. And there's really no eyeballs on you. Silence becomes a form of distance when people don't know what you're doing. Modern culture rewards exposure, not mastery. And so with this, anybody who's putting themselves out there at all, they don't need to master their craft. They're going to get seen. The algorithms online, they push visibility. They're not pushing wisdom. essentially creating a world full of performers and very few legitimate connoisseurs. Very few actual decision makers that are that are you know moving the chains if you will. So you need to understand the difference between power and popularity. Popularity depends on approval and power depends on independence. And the shadows is is where that is. If someone doesn't know you, then how can they attack you? Power stays in the shadows. There's a reason we don't know who's really pulling the strings in the world.
This is a quote from Oppenheimer that I really love and it reminds me a lot of Machiavellian ideology. Machiavelli is somebody that I've read and studied a lot and I find fascinating. It's sort of this hard truth about life. In our society there's this illusion of visibility as success. We equate fame, attention, validation as success. Not even just on the grand. I'm not even just talking celebrities in Hollywood. I'm also talking even things like in your high school, in your friend groups. It seems that the person that has the most overall attention for whatever reason, we equate that with success. And you have to understand this idea of chasing the sun is an ego-driven thing. It's your ego that wants the applause from others. You need this sort of external proof of worth, which is actually a sign of insecurity rather than something like strategy.
Strategy would be playing the fool. Play a fool to catch a fool. That's what you need to understand. You never ever want to show your true intentions or what you're capable of to other people. You know, Robert Greene talks about that in the laws of power, but really he copied that from Machiavelli. You need to understand that every time that you're showing the world who you are and what you're capable of, you're going to be seen as a threat. And I know a lot of people might read this and be like, "Well, that's like we're not in the medieval times," you know, but it's very true even for social spheres. It's very true in the workplace. You always want to appear dumber than you actually are. You never want to let someone know your true intentions. You want to be behind the scenes making the moves and nobody fully knowing because the truth is is that exposure invites control. The more visible you are, you become more predictable. You become more monitored and people are going to try to actively manipulate you. Attention places you under influence and that's just not needed. Why would you want that? You have to basically overpower your own ego, your own desire to be seen and focus solely on the task at hand, which is positioning yourself in the best place possible.
If you want to work your way up at whatever workplace you're at, never let anybody know the things that you're doing in order to get there. It's it's just never going to help. And I know people are going to be like, "It's not that deep." But trust me, even even me having had worked many jobs that were like not corporate, but they were like temporary or entry level or random or whatever it is, and I was trying to work my way up when I was younger to get paid more.
I realized that whenever people would tell other people any information, it would just go and somehow find its way back to the boss or whatever and it would have nothing to do with them and so it would just overall sort of their own image. And it's like if people will do it at the smallest scale like that, I'm telling you for a fact they will do it on a greater scale. Even when it's not something like your profession on the line, even when it's something just like social currency. People love to expose you because it gives them a sense of selfworth.
True power always operates quietly. The people that are really pulling the strings in the world, the ones that are the elites, you know, the group of people that's controlling us, we don't even know their names. Only ignorant people sit there and say, "Oh my god, Trump, oh, it's he's so bad. Biden, oh, he's so bad." you know, whatever president is out there, what you know, who whatever politician or Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. This is this is low IQ activity to believe that those are the ones that are really pulling the strings. They're not. They're like the puppets. They're the instruments that are being used. I'm not saying they don't have power. They do, but they're not the big dogs. The big dogs never show themselves. When you reveal yourself, you are putting yourself in harm's way. You're exposing yourself. Real power always operates in silence. Mchaveli tells us this. Robert Green tells us this. You never want to expose your true intentions. And so the shadows will be your greatest ally. When you stay unseen, it allows freedom of movement, adaptability, control over timing. You control everything. And there's really no eyeballs on you. Silence becomes a form of distance when people don't know what you're doing. Modern culture rewards exposure, not mastery. And so with this, anybody who's putting themselves out there at all, they don't need to master their craft. They're going to get seen. The algorithms online, they push visibility. They're not pushing wisdom. essentially creating a world full of performers and very few legitimate connoisseurs. Very few actual decision makers that are that are you know moving the chains if you will. So you need to understand the difference between power and popularity. Popularity depends on approval and power depends on independence. And the shadows is is where that is. If someone doesn't know you, then how can they attack you? Power stays in the shadows. There's a reason we don't know who's really pulling the strings in the world.
