What Machiavelli Has Taught Me

I want to talk about a writer who has obviously been extremely important to me he was The Guiding Spirit behind the 48 Laws of Power undoubtedly and that is my good friend Nicolo [Music] makavelli makavelli I remember also going to sound like I was a very strange 15-year-old cuz I talked about nche but I believe I bought my first copy of the prince when I was 15 and I very remember the cover of it cuz it was so distinctive it had a large hand on it and there were all these people inside the hand as if the hand was controlling all of these people and it was kind of this metaphor for The Prince and I was thought that was very striking and I was attracted to it probably because in high school and in my family and things I was dealing with things that were going on possibly manipulations I I had the sense when I was very young that people wore these masks that they pretend to be something that they're not and it really at a very early age so something inside me was drawn to that picture of of the hand and the cover and makavelli so I read The Prince and honestly I don't think I understood a hell of a lot although you know he he talks a lot about history and it's fairly straightforward but I think I was very excited by the language because you know often times when you're young what irritates you about humans and adults is how fake they are how they pretend to be something that they're not right and when you're a kid or you're a child or you're a teenager you see through it you see they're faking it they're putting up a front that's not really who they are and it bothers you makavelli just ripped that damn mask off of people's faces and said this is the human animal as it is they want Power okay and so he was writing about great Christian figures like the popes of Italy as if they were