Worth a read or not?

Read dis one

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Holy fuck. Check out this zoomer brainlet.
>tho wtf
Nice cell posting there faggot? Been on Instagram yet today? How are the ecelebs doing?

relax you inverse-tumblrina

>implying sun tzu isnt the go to book for reddditors and facebook users

literally babys first book

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people who namedrop or brag about something like the art of war probably haven't read it and just want to be associated with something they think is important because they've been told it is.

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Read Machiavelli's Art of War and the prince. Sun Tzu's Art of War is good, but supplement it with these

I haven't read the book so I can't say one way or another, but I do recognize it seems to be a peak pretentious normalfag book regardless of it is good or not. But how can you defend someone who makes the statement
>Why would anyone read about ancient war?
Are you that much of pleb that you agree with someone who says studying and learning about history is a pointless endeavor? Are you a complete idiot?

Ok but to be fair the initial invasion was the largest assfucking a modern military has ever inflicted on someone since somalia. Saddam got his shit pushed in pretty fucking hard.

> w

It's pretty tame, if you have lived longer than 20 years and haven't been sheltered, it won't teach you anything worth.
But well, this is Jow Forums, so you likely are a sheltered underage faggot.

"Common sense" is stuff that has been determined with trial and error. A lot of what people call common sense isn't common at all because it seems obvious in hindsight but requires intelligence to note and apply the lessons learned. Lessons learned in art of war fall into this category. Charlie munger calls this sort of broad knowledge and allogoric lessons a "lattice work of mental models", or a framework that you can apply to situations to understand quickly the essence of a thing. Some such lessons you can learn from this book i think. Just read it OP, and think about it. It doesn't take very long. You've probably spent more time on Jow Forums today than it would take to read this book.

history is honestly for plebians. its a reactive hobby, no different from playing video games or watching television. an interest in history goes hand in with being a keen normie. historians lack dynamism. ideas are all that matters. sun tzu has ideas but its ultimately a worthless book for plebian reddditors who dont read. it contains all the best facebook inspirational quotes a normie could ever need

You, describing my life exactly in 2 fucking sentences, wants me to end it all. What in the fucking earth just went wrong with me?

>history is honestly for plebians
True. Every person I've met that takes history seriously is square as fuck and are usually never forward thinkers.

yes but not necessarily for business reasons unless you fall into the philosophy of all knowledge being self knowledge

But most people don't have this sense which is why they are here on Jow Forums. Hell it should be reading material for middle school so it can become more common but god bless america.

It was written a long time ago in a poem like prose, so not really.
I think the only two major lessons is the hidden cost of logistics, and espionage

Think of it like this.

Bunch of motivationl quotes just without pictures. Only quotes,

Plebs cant even remember what happened last week to themselves, let alone what happened a century ago to somebody else

I've read the book. It's a buncha shit with the equivalent of "Don't put your hand in fire. Fire is hot". Brainlets sperging out over stuff are just proving they either haven't read the book, or lack the mental capacity to understand these basic concepts in the first place.

It's being used on a global scale to manipulate most of society. If you read it you'll at least get a clearer understanding of the bullshit around you.

How can you remember what happened a century ago when you're not even alive at that time?

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Absolutely. Also read The Book of Five Rings, and Hagakure.
Human nature doesn't change. It gives you insight towards dealing with any sort of conflict.

What's the cutoff for knowing history? One century? Fifty years? Ten years?

i watched history youtube, derp

Whats the point of knowing history? And what kinda history are we talking about? Political? Financial? War? Nutrition? Science? Should one know all of the history? What for?

History is only beneficial when you need to use it for your future prosperity. So reading about history of politics is worthless if you are trying to make money trading. On the other hand, reading history of tradeing is beneficial.

I'm inclined to believe that people who are attacking history as being useless do so because they are seeing it as an impedance to whatever agenda they're pushing.

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Yes, though some stuff not too relevant to todays warfare

>Some of details of history (like Napolean's favorite food) is wrong, therefore all of history is wrong.
>History never repeats itself.

Modern man forgot the art of doing and now only reacts to stimuli coming from his environment. He spends his strength partly in the process of assimilation, partly in defending himself, and again partly in responding to stimuli. A profound enfeeblement of spontaneity: The historian, the critic, the analyst, the interpreter, the observer, the collector, the reader, all reactive talents. Artificial modification of one's own nature in order to make it resemble a “mirror”, one is interested, but only epidermally: this is systemic coolness, equilibrium, a steady low temperature, just beneath the thin surface on which warmth movement, storm, and undulations play opposition of external mobility to a certain dead heaviness and fatigue.

u sound dum

its a quote from nietzsche but it rings true. historians are pathetic people, look at /his/ for example. depraved retards living vicariously through historical events, the mind state is no different from your average /v/edditor. its sedentary entertainment for people who lack dynamism. historians are subhumans

It's decent, but not worth it unless you've got power to wield.

Liberty and Freedom

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it's ok but overrated by people who think they're special/geniuses/etc

Why is history conflated with historians? Why is knowing history an inherently bad thing? Why is philosophy of a literal psycho more important than history?

If you dont know you know already you will never know and i dont care to convince you otherwise. keep enjoying history

You're not making any sense, dude. You seem to have difficulty even expressing what your own opinion is. If all you can do is quote, then you're just an mindless NPC.

Only if you read it in chinese

How come

I was being cheeky, it's obvious a book loses some soul from translation. Especially if it's an asian language since it differs so much from germanic languages