Corporate Machiavelli

Every child who goes through the American education system (schools and universities) is relentlessly taught about the evils of Rightwing Authoritarian Regimes (Adolf Hitler, Mussolini). They are NEVER TOLD about the evils of Leftwing Authoritarian Regimes (Stalin, Mao Zedong).

If you are at a protest, and you have zero capital (you are poor) the probability that you arrived to this protest via your own careful critical thinking is very low. The probability that you were deceived by Propaganda is very high.

Generally speaking, Evil Wins and Good Loses Why? Evil People will do whatever it takes to win, Good People will shy away from using effective strategies if they find such strategies to be morally objectionable.

Being politically correct, and giving accurate statements about reality, are mutually exclusive. Reality Is Not Politically Correct.

Foolish Rich People Pay Money To Get Fame And Attention Wise Rich People Pay Money To Avoid Attention Privacy Can Usually Be Bought

The Life Expectancy for a person of average wealth in China is 76. The Life Expectancy for a Billionaire in China is 47. Why? Because assassination is an extremely common cause of death for those at the pinnacle of China's Dominance hierarchy.

The game that western civilization is currently playing is "How far can the Overton Window Shift...Leftward...before our civilization collapses?" Western Civilization = Western Europe, America, Canada, New Zealand, Australia.

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In America today, I would rather confess to murder, than to having politically incorrect thoughts. The degree of ostracism and hatred I would suffer, would be less.

Overly sensitive people are annoying and dislikable, because they consider their sensitivity to be everyone else's obligation to self censor and regulate what they say.

As such, only initiate or escalate conflict if you have SOMETHING TO GAIN from doing so, and the gain is big enough to make escalating conflict worth it. Note: Stroking your ego or expressing you anger does not count as 'Something to Gain'

If you insist on fighting fair, and your adversaries do NOT fight fair, you will lose. If you refuse to cheat, and your adversaries do cheat, you will lose.

Moral Superiority Does Not Win Wars

When it comes to political conflicts, whichever side is more authoritarian will win. If your political opponents are willing to censor you, and get people on your side fired from their jobs and career blacklisted and you are NOT willing to do such things to them you will lose.

"Life has more meaning in the face of death" -33 Strategies Of War Death being even present gives clarity as to what is critical, and what is irrelevant.

High Testosterone seems to cause High Realism while Low Testosterone seems to cause Low Realism High Realism = wants to find the truth Low Realism = wants feel good lies, will manufacture rationalizations for feel good lies that are obviously false.

Crimes committed *by* women are punished less harshly, than crimes committed by men. Crimes committed *against* women, are punished more harshly than crimes committed against men.

What wins elections? (What sort of message are the masses receptive to?) "Our side is GOOD, their side is EVIL, we must DESTROY them."

Expressing disrespect or hatred for someone, who other people have immense respect for, for no apparent reason ...is not a good strategy for winning Status. It does not make people like or respect you. I thought this was 'Obvious', but clearly it is not.

Psychopaths do not feel Guilt, but they do feel Shame. Guilt = I fee bad for harming someone Shame = I feel embarrassment