Article 3: Men and Women Are Merely Players by Robert Greene

Robert Greene

The 48 Laws of Power

On the third post I will comment on the article that sparks awe throughout every neuron cell in my brain as well as plunging my brain into the world of critical thinking and made me wonder till this day. Oopss,forgive my exaggeration there, the article that deserve the nomination is entitled “Men and Women Are Merely Players” written by Robert Greene. Actually the following article is an excerpt from the book, “The 48 Law of Power”. The main ideas of the this article is much separated but the only one that attract me started from the quote of a great Renaissance diplomat and Machiavelli wrote, “Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come ruin among the great number who are not good.” Let us find the deeper meaning of the quote, it literally means that people are not an  cannot be 100% good all the time, those tries so will collapse on their effort amongst those who practice hypocrisy as part of their life…or that is how I define that quote. Short story is one cannot be too perfect and must have their flaws. Machiavelli stated that inside everyone lies a dark side that exerts our true emotion upon something. 

Are we the player? Or we just being played?

There’s a good side and a bad side, so how do you manage to handle both?For Muslim ,praying 5 times a day and do many good deeds would settle the problem but easier said than done right? So everyone else include me play the safe game, put on nice face, say nice thing and keep the fiery dark hatred inside…. and that’s how you play hypocrite game. In the game there’s always a good player right? By making a show of one’s weakness is actually a very effective strategy, subtle and deceptive, in the game of power.

Who would hate this cute baby?

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Beware again as being naive doesn’t mean powerless and weak as they can manipulate your thinking and let you believe them as innocent and at the same time pulling the string on you to get what their heart desire. It just seems so wrong but no one seems to put a fight to it as human nature is prone in wanting to protect the weak.Honesty is the best policy seems to be the finest moral ain’t it? Too bad human just stop being human long time ago as modernization rise. Welcome to a world of deceit as they say.