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THE 33 STRATEGIES OF WAR
We live in a culture that promotes democratic values of being fair to one
and all, the importance of fitting into a group, and knowing how to
cooperate with other people. We are taught early on in life that those who
are outwardly combative and aggressive pay a social price: unpopularity
and isolation. These values of harmony and cooperation are perpetuated in
subtle and not-so-subtle ways--through books on how to be successful in
life; through the pleasant, peaceful exteriors that those who have gotten
ahead in the world present to the public; through notions of correctness
that saturate the public space. The problem for us is that we are trained and
prepared for peace, and we are not at all prepared for what confronts us in
the real world--war.
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