Sun Tzu is so fucking funny to me because for his time he was legitimately a brilliant tactician but a bunch of his insight is shit like “if you think you might lose, avoid doing that”, “being outnumbered is bad generally”, and “consider lying.”
My personal favourite is his lengthy lecture on the subject of Supplies Being Very Important I Cannot Stress Enough The Importance Of Protecting Your Supply Lines But Also Supply Lines Are Expensive As Shit So Steal The Enemy’s Supplies At Every Opportunity.
Sun Tzu is so fucking funny to me because for his time he was legitimately a brilliant tactician but a bunch of his insight is shit like “if you think you might lose, avoid doing that”, “being outnumbered is bad generally”, and “consider lying.”
My personal favourite is his lengthy lecture on the subject of Supplies Being Very Important I Cannot Stress Enough The Importance Of Protecting Your Supply Lines But Also Supply Lines Are Expensive As Shit So Steal The Enemy’s Supplies At Every Opportunity.
One of the more important things to consider about any historical work is the audience it was published for. The Art Of War was aimed at fancy nobles high on philosophy with little practical military experience who were nonetheless leading armies.
Sun Tzu, after desperatly trying to explain extremely basic logic to a bunch of upper-class twits, basically sat down and wrote the most elaborate “As per my last email” ever
It’s all been a bit Chaotic and therefor there was some delay in the release of the zine. However it’s done now and will be up for download on November 6!
Went to Half Price Book Store- found a gorgeous hardcopy of the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. I read it last year and it was fabulous. I recommend. Still looking for the upcoming Aeschylus, Confucius, and Sophocles. Publishers need to make more good translations that are pretty classics too.
For anyone who wants to read with me the beginning of the Mother of All Book lists is as follows (looks crappy when you realize that I’m still on 3- but I have read a lot of these already, just not in context):
1800 BC Anonymous. The Epic of Gilgamesh
1000 BC Vyasa. The Mahabharata
900 BC Sage Ved Vyasa. The Bhagavad Gita (Part of the Mahabharata) *date unknown
855 BC Homer. The Odyssey.
850 BC Homer. The Iliad
512 BC Sun Tzu. The Art of War (Recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian)
500 BC Lao Tsu. Tao te Ching
500 BC Mencius. The Book of Mencius
480 BC Aeschylus. Prometheus Bound.
479 BC Confucius. The Sayings
478 BC Confucius. The Analects
472 BC Aeschylus. The Persians
467 BC Aeschylus. Seven Against Thebes
463 BC Aeschylus. Suppliant Maidens
458 BC Aeschylus. Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides(The Oresteia Trilogy)
450 BC Sophocles. Ajax
450 BC Sophocles. Trichinae
441 BC Sophocles. Antigone
438 BC Euripides. Alcestis
431 BC Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War.
Sun Tzu is so fucking funny to me because for his time he was legitimately a brilliant tactician but a bunch of his insight is shit like “if you think you might lose, avoid doing that”, “being outnumbered is bad generally”, and “consider lying.”
My personal favourite is his lengthy lecture on the subject of Supplies Being Very Important I Cannot Stress Enough The Importance Of Protecting Your Supply Lines But Also Supply Lines Are Expensive As Shit So Steal The Enemy’s Supplies At Every Opportunity.
One of the more important things to consider about any historical work is the audience it was published for. The Art Of War was aimed at fancy nobles high on philosophy with little practical military experience who were nonetheless leading armies.
Sun Tzu, after desperatly trying to explain extremely basic logic to a bunch of upper-class twits, basically sat down and wrote the most elaborate “As per my last email” ever
Attributed to high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician Sun Tzu, The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise. The text is composed of thirteen chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly known to be the definitive work on military strategy and tactics of its time and has been the most famous and influential of China's Seven Military Classics. For the last two millennia it has remained the most important military treatise in Asia, where even the common people knew it by name. It has had an influence on Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy and beyond.
Sun Tzu is so fucking funny to me because for his time he was legitimately a brilliant tactician but a bunch of his insight is shit like “if you think you might lose, avoid doing that”, “being outnumbered is bad generally”, and “consider lying.”
My personal favourite is his lengthy lecture on the subject of Supplies Being Very Important I Cannot Stress Enough The Importance Of Protecting Your Supply Lines But Also Supply Lines Are Expensive As Shit So Steal The Enemy’s Supplies At Every Opportunity.
