Personae Non Gratae

“The society that separates its warriors and its scholars will have its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.” -Thucydides In our decadent and rotten culture, most spend no time thinking of scholarly or spiritual things, nor are remotely capable of fighting. Do it all

 Core Principles: The Leader of Men I am re-listening to Red Rising, a sci-fi series about a hierarchical society in which the highest caste has abused its power for centuries, and a member of the lowest caste is sent to infiltrate the upper crust in order to tear down the hierarchy, and restore the deeply Judeo-Christian ideal that "all men are created equal". I reached the section of the book after the hero is surgically altered, and must be trained physically and mentally with great intensity in order to make up for his 16 years of low-caste upbringing so that he can fit in with the highest echelon of society. The author highlights a few major concepts here; one of the biggest is that while knowledge and resources equal power, many of the highest caste take advantage of their superior knowledge and resources and use them to live a cushy life of comfort and ease at the expense of others. There are, however, a select few who seize the initiative, and make use of these endowm...