The Top 10 Eye-Opening Lessons From a Book That Was Banned in Prisons
#6. Be wary of these four individuals
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene has been banned in prisons because it’s about brutal manipulation tactics.
“Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive,” says the book’s official blurb.
And it couldn’t be any other way. A book that seems to have been written by Machiavelli himself is all of those things. In it, you’ll find laws ranging from creating a cult-like following (so you can exploit it, of course) to stealing credit from others while doing nothing.
“The laws have a simple premise,” Robert Green says in the preface, “certain actions almost always increase one’s power (the observance of the law), while others decrease it and even ruin us (transgressions of the law).”
All laws, though, are geared toward making you an expert manipulator. They teach you how to use others’ emotions to advance in the world.
No wonder it’s been banned.
Now, you may be wondering: Alexa, why did you read it?
My stepfather recommended it. He said everyone should. So you can imagine my surprise when I started going through laws that taught you to never put too much trust in friends or to use generosity…
