I've started a blog, I'm not exactly sure why, probably because I'm spending too much time sitting around my room reading and I miss being able to talk about readings in class, the library and all sorts of other places.
I think I'll probably use this to ramble about what I've been reading, in current events and in books.
The title comes from the opening quote of a book I've long enjoyed titled "Tactics of Mistake" by Gordon Dickson. The full quote is "Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage amongst his books. For to you Kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned by the flicking of a finger..."
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- Misunderstood Machiavelli
- Recent university graduate, missing constant intellectual discourse. I'm hoping to use this as a way to ramble on about my interest in history and the applicability of history to understanding and avoiding mistakes for the future. I chose the name that I did because I think Machiavelli in fact expressed a similar view in his "Discourses on Livy" but most people fail to understand him as a rational and relatively liberal (in the classical sense) political thinker and still insist that he was a totalitarian.
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