Each law, however, gets its own chapter: “Conceal Your Intentions,” “Always Say Less Than Necessary,” “Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy,” and so on.
These laws boil down to being as ruthless, selfish, manipulative, and deceitful as possible. This power game can be played well or poorly, and in these 48 laws culled from the history and wisdom of the world’s greatest power players are the rules that must be followed to win. We live today as courtiers once did in royal courts: we must appear civil while attempting to crush all those around us. The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power.Įveryone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter and former editor at Esquire (Elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia). For the unwoke among us, Ramsey thoughtfully includes “Franchesca’s Simple Explanations of Not-So-Simple Concepts,” a “social-justice glossary” that includes definitions of such terms as “gender binary,” “cisgender,” “Latinx,” and “Slacktivism.”Īn admirable exploration of the rapidly morphing boundaries of social mores and online outrage the author helpfully points the way toward better communication. “I know the exact date I went from being a nobody, minding my own business in my corporate retail job,” she writes, “to being ‘internet famous’-and inadvertently making a lot of girls cry.” That moment came after she posted a video, “Shit White Girls Say…to Black Girls,” which went “super-massive, mainstream-news viral.” Ramsey’s narrative is a snappy mix of the funny, sad, and horrifying incidents that have shaped her life, many of which demonstrate lessons that can apply to a wide variety of modern-day readers. Ramsey was an early fan of YouTube and began making videos for fun. By high school, she had purchased her own domain name and began blogging. I basically grew up online.” She built her first website while still in middle school. Early on she admits that she is a product of social media: “I have a long and complicated history with the internet. With a program in the works with Comedy Central, the author offers her story as an illustration of why, in today’s overheated social and political environment, it is more important than ever to pay close attention to how we communicate with each other. Ramsey has a solid media platform: A comedian, actress, and blogger, she was a writer and correspondent for the Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore and has been featured on NPR, the BBC, and Anderson Cooper 360.
THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY SERIES
CT and TV coverage will be via Marquee Sports Network.The host of MTV’s web series Decoded chronicles her difficulties navigating the early days of social media and her evolution as an advocate for social justice. Monday, Drew Smyly will face Jordan Montgomery, who’s been great since St. It was still a successful series against Milwaukee, winning two of three, but it won’t get any easier with the Cardinals in town. It was not a day when anyone would have guessed that five home runs would leave the yars. One other oddity about this game: The weather, at last, cleared out and it was sunny most of the afternoon, but with a strong wind blowing in from the north. If they don’t, Jed Hoyer will have to find better relievers. If any of the current relievers are going to be part of the “Next Great Cubs Team,” they will have to step up and pitch better than that. The Cardinals are coming to town Monday for a five-game series. It’s been quite some time since the Cubs had a bullpen meltdown as bad as this one. Suzuki doubled with one out in the ninth, but was stranded.
it’s only 3-2, and maybe the Cubs could come back, except Kervin Castro issued a one-out walk and then Hiura hit his second homer of the game to make it 5-2 and pretty much put the game out of reach. Hopefully he can work his way back to what he did in July and early August. After a long stretch of good pitching Wick has been pretty bad recently. The run scored on a sacrifice fly, and that happened only because Wick threw a pair of wild pitches in the inning.
The Cubs still had a chance here, until Rowan Wick was touched up for a run in the eighth after a single and walk. Unfortunately, just two pitches after Tellez’s homer, it was indeed 2-2 when Keston Hiura homered off Brandon Hughes.
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