it's one thing to read sun tzu, another to watch it carried out in practice
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it is incredible how pervasive and useful his dictums are for modern warfare (twitter skirmishes)
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ender's game is probably one of the best modern stories about the true end game of mastering sun tzu's art of war -- it's not the loss of the will to fight so much as a pure acceptance of your opponent for the reality of their self-instantiation
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There was a good essay I can’t find now about how Ender was just a little psychopath and the book mostly just pandered to bullied nerd revenge fantasies. I kinda agree. Th philosophy was cosmetic. The book’s payoff was Death-Dealimg Ender episodes
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This might be it

