(Juno Receiving the Head of Argos {Creator:Jacopo Amigoni} 1730 – 1732) I recently made a post about Machiavelli and quoted some folks who said that he was sort of pissed that Christianity made us into a bunch of wankers. When I say wankers, what I mean is people who feel like we should “turn the [...]
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Oxford English Dictionary defines Machiavellianism as “the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct.” In social psychology, a Machiavellian person is one who has a high tendency to deceive and manipulate others for personal gain. In middle school Mr. Snarey told us that to be called Machiavellian means that you are cynical, [...]
