Status Updates From De Vorst [Il Principe]

Ah I see, Machiavelli isn’t an evil man that people make him out to be. All he has done is brought light to the tactics that political figures use to remain in power through his own observations. I’m very intrigued as to how well Machiavelli has written on this.

Pleasantly surprised so far. I like how he describes the people essentially as sheep, but possibly insurrectionist sheep. A lot of the ideas presented here are still found in government today in some form