Comment on It insists upon itself
nesc@lemmy.cafe 11 months ago
That’s what machiavellian distills into - cold pragmatism and disregard of morality. So his turn from okay guy that wanted his family to stop with illegal shit into someone much worse than his father was portrays it perfectly.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 11 months ago
Exactly. Machiavellian doesn’t mean galaxy brain.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Unscrupulous is only one of the definitions.
Cunning and scheming are the other two. The Prince detailed how to gain and hold power.
It wasn’t a book that said immediately shoot everyone to solve all your problems.
nesc@lemmy.cafe 11 months ago
You gain and hold power by killing people you don’t like, look at any dictator that ever dictatored. 🙃
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Again, yes you kill people. You don’t just kill everyone immediately without a plan. Even Pol Pot had a plan.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah that would be caesarean or scipian or something stupid like that