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The Game is the Same.

 
 
From Robert Greene “The 48 Laws of Power”.
 
Preface, page xvii
 
The feeling of having no power over people and events is generally unbearable to us – when we feel helpless we feel miserable.  No one wants less power; everyone wants more.  In the world today, however, it is dangerous to seem too power hungry, to be [...]

A Candle Burned

 
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
 
 

  
Winter’s Night
 
 
Blizzards were blowing everywhere
Throughout the land.
A candle burned upon the table,
A candle burned.
 
 
As midgets in the summer fly
Towards a flame,
The snowflakes from the yard swarmed to
The window pane.
 
 
And, on the glass, bright snowy rings
And arrows formed.
A candle burned upon the table,
A candle burned.
 
 
And on the white illumined ceiling
Shadows were cast,
As [...]

The mirror reflects reality, but…

it is also the perfect tool for deception: When you mirror your enemies, doing exactly as they do, they cannot figure out your strategy.  The Mirror Effect mocks and humiliates them, making them overreact.  By holding up a mirror to their psyches, you seduce them with the illusion that you share their values; by holding [...]