Latest / Satanic Youth Kenya (SatanYK) / SatanYK EP LIX. The Ruler (Tributes To Machiavellian Philosophy)
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- 0:12Speaker 1: Welcome back to satanic youth kenya where have you been
- 0:23Speaker 1: all this time when you're waiting for you anyways It's
- 0:27Speaker 1: a part of me celebrating my birthday festives more than
- 0:31Speaker 1: I just did. And we're still celebrating this month of July,
- 0:38Speaker 1: July 4th, being my highest holidays. And tomorrow is my
- 0:45Speaker 1: spouse's happy birthday. Have a happy birthday, my dear one.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Let's continue. Zapata, sit down, take a seat.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Alright, calm down.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Today's topic will be tributes to Machiavellian philosophy. And if
- 1:12Speaker 1: there is people who are listening to this episode and
- 1:16Speaker 1: they haven't read The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, you're doing
- 1:22Speaker 1: yourself a service. But anyways, hello there. I hope you've
- 1:29Speaker 1: been doing well. And while the world is sleeping in
- 1:37Speaker 1: their dreams of comfort, tonight, you, you will change. The
- 1:46Speaker 1: world doesn't reward kindness alone, but calculation. Mercy without strength
- 1:54Speaker 1: is surrender and the real peace comes from control of
- 2:01Speaker 1: your mind, your emotions and your life. Let's cut what
- 2:09Speaker 1: is weak in your life and true power comes from
- 2:13Speaker 1: those who are composed while others break down. as we
- 2:25Speaker 1: enter into the shadows where all empires are forged and
- 2:32Speaker 1: all rulers are born man is not a loyal creature
- 2:40Speaker 1: as his interests shifts and bends so does his loyalty
- 2:49Speaker 1: a ruler must not be judging men as they appear,
- 2:57Speaker 1: but understanding them as they are, fickle, ungrateful, greedy, and deceitful.
- 3:11Speaker 2: To rule is not to uplift.
- 3:14Speaker 1: Men, but to anticipate his weakness before he reveals it.
- 3:22Speaker 1: Most men live by convenience, swear loyalty when watched and
- 3:30Speaker 1: betray when unseen. This is not corruption. This is instinct.
- 3:42Speaker 1: They fear punishment more than they value honor. That's why
- 3:48Speaker 1: they behave like that. So the wise do not curse
- 3:54Speaker 1: the tide for changing.
- 3:56Speaker 2: They build ships to move with it. Right?
- 4:01Speaker 1: Don't be that dude who keeps complaining about everything. You
- 4:06Speaker 1: will meet men who promise eternity in their friendship. But
- 4:15Speaker 1: watch how devotion fades when power shifts, when profit changes hands.
- 4:25Speaker 1: The crowd, chi as whoever, stands in the balcony not
- 4:32Speaker 1: because they love you. It's because they don't want to
- 4:39Speaker 1: miss the sense of victory that comes with it. The
- 4:46Speaker 1: ruler who seeks affection will find himself surrounded by liars,
- 4:54Speaker 1: each smiling as they sharpen the knife behind his back.
- 5:00Speaker 1: Power is never gained by pleasing others but by never
- 5:07Speaker 1: needing to. I'll repeat this again. Power is never gained
- 5:13Speaker 1: by pleasing others but by never needing to. Men forgive
- 5:22Speaker 1: cruelty faster than.
- 5:24Speaker 2: They forgive weakness. They will kneel.
- 5:29Speaker 1: Before a tyrant before they follow a fool. They despise
- 5:36Speaker 1: what they pity and pity what they cannot respect. control
- 5:42Speaker 1: yourself and by doing that you will be able to
- 5:46Speaker 1: control them or do you want to begin by controlling
- 5:50Speaker 1: them first do you want to control the people in
- 5:53Speaker 1: the masses first and yet you can't even control yourself
- 5:58Speaker 1: let them find no fear in your eyes no doubt
- 6:04Speaker 1: in your movements and any proceedings and even Let them
- 6:12Speaker 1: never find fear in your door. You will become their
- 6:18Speaker 1: moving center where their uncertainty defaults. They seek rulers not
- 6:27Speaker 1: because they are weak, but because they are tired. They
- 6:32Speaker 1: wish to be told what to do by someone who
- 6:37Speaker 1: doesn't tremble. Don't forget that. They seek rulers not because
- 6:44Speaker 1: they are weak, they can't rule themselves. No.
- 6:49Speaker 2: It's because they are tired. They wish to be told
- 6:54Speaker 2: what to do by someone who doesn't tremble.
- 7:01Speaker 1: To govern well, you should understand that men are predictable.
- 7:10Speaker 1: Men will always love you today and despise you tomorrow.
- 7:18Speaker 1: They will always fear consequences. In truth, human goodness is
- 7:25Speaker 1: simply weakness. What is human goodness? Because without command, goodness
- 7:34Speaker 1: transforms into intelligence. Without law, compassion becomes cowardice.
- 7:43Speaker 2: Right?
- 7:47Speaker 1: The ruler who loves his people sometimes have to act
- 7:55Speaker 1: against their desires for their desires leads them into ruins.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Your task is not to hate mankind but to lead
- 8:08Speaker 1: them not to pity the fallen but to understand the
- 8:14Speaker 1: terrain learn to listen to what they are avoiding to
- 8:19Speaker 1: say but remember this when you are studying them they
- 8:27Speaker 1: are watching you the ruler who forgets that he too
- 8:34Speaker 1: is seen becomes the subject of another's game Don't be
- 8:40Speaker 1: that ruler ruled with ignorance. Don't forget that you too
- 8:46Speaker 1: are seen. And if you forget that, you'll become subject
- 8:52Speaker 1: of another one's game.
- 8:54Speaker 2: Yes, certainly.
- 8:57Speaker 1: One that cannot be read is invincible because it removes
- 9:04Speaker 1: from others the power to prepare. You can't prepare for
- 9:10Speaker 1: what you don't know, for what you can't read. So
- 9:17Speaker 1: it's better to remain unreadable and to give them no
- 9:22Speaker 1: weapons against you. You must learn to bend the world
- 9:29Speaker 1: by the force of will, not prayers.
- 9:32Speaker 2: That's what I keep telling these guys.
- 9:35Speaker 1: You must learn the world by the force of will,
- 9:40Speaker 1: not prayers. The weak trust destiny to guide them. They
- 9:48Speaker 1: speak of signs, stars, and fate as if the heavens
- 9:52Speaker 1: concern themselves with their comfort. Virtue, the quality that separates
- 10:01Speaker 1: the ruler from the ruled, is not virtue as men
- 10:07Speaker 1: know it.
- 10:09Speaker 2: It's not moral goodness.
- 10:12Speaker 1: It is strength of spirit, mastery of circumstances. to impose
- 10:21Speaker 1: form upon chaos. Create a form. Do you see that
- 10:28Speaker 1: chaos going around your life? Create form.
- 10:33Speaker 2: Around it. Create form. Let it have form. And that's Fatu.
- 10:43Speaker 1: Fatu is the wheel that turns disaster.
- 10:48Speaker 2: To design.
- 10:50Speaker 1: The refusal to submit to the unpredictability of life. You
- 10:59Speaker 1: must learn to see opportunity on where others see ruin.
- 11:09Speaker 1: You must learn to see opportunities when others see ruins.
- 11:15Speaker 1: Most men run from uncertainty. Yet, Uncertainty is the only
- 11:21Speaker 1: field that fortune plays on. Didn't you know that? Fortune
- 11:29Speaker 1: plays on uncertainty. And as long as you avoid uncertainty,
- 11:37Speaker 1: fortune won't come around you. This is why kingdoms are created.
- 11:46Speaker 1: by the reckless few and inherited by the deeming many.
- 11:53Speaker 1: The founders of the empires didn't ask permission. They moved
- 12:10Speaker 1: before even the world could stop them. Do not mistake
- 12:16Speaker 1: impulsiveness for Vatu. For the man who doesn't move with
- 12:22Speaker 1: foresight is not bold.
- 12:25Speaker 2: He is blind.
- 12:28Speaker 1: Vatu acts with calculation. Disguised as courage, the ruler must
- 12:38Speaker 1: make chaos look like art. Inevitability like accidents. Let others
- 12:48Speaker 1: believe that you were guided by luck. It disarms their suspicion.
- 12:56Speaker 1: Let them think your victories are chosen by the skies,
- 13:04Speaker 1: by the heavens. They will never prepare for the next strike.
- 13:15Speaker 1: Those who believe that you are favored will fear you
- 13:20Speaker 1: for they cannot fight what they think that the heavens
- 13:25Speaker 1: have already chosen. Fortune banishes the idol. It visits the
- 13:40Speaker 1: man in motion. Every preparation is a silent invitation of
- 13:49Speaker 1: her presence. Study your enemies before they appear. Guide your
- 13:56Speaker 1: mind before betrayal tempts it. By the time fortune turns
- 14:02Speaker 1: to you, she must find a man that is standing,
- 14:08Speaker 1: not kneeling. Yes. History remembers those who treated fortune as
- 14:16Speaker 1: a rival, not a mistress. Remember, Alexander burned sheep not
- 14:24Speaker 1: because he was mad. Do you think he was mad
- 14:29Speaker 1: burning the sheep so that nobody could retreat, removing the
- 14:33Speaker 1: choice of retreat?
- 14:34Speaker 2: Do you think he was mad?
- 14:38Speaker 1: Maybe if you think that maybe you are, Alexander burned
- 14:41Speaker 1: the sheep, not because he was mad, not because of madness,
- 14:48Speaker 1: but to remove the choice of retreat. And as we continue,
- 14:53Speaker 1: we will finalize our episode today briefly. There is a
- 15:02Speaker 1: moment in every... There is a moment in every ruler's
- 15:08Speaker 1: life when the gods look away. That is the moment
- 15:14Speaker 1: you must act. When divine order sleeps, humans will reign supreme.
- 15:22Speaker 1: And remember, there will be times of fever and times
- 15:27Speaker 1: of drought. The fool will celebrate in summer. as the
- 15:34Speaker 1: wise prepare for winter. Let me repeat it again. The
- 15:41Speaker 1: fool will celebrate in summer as the wise prepares for winter.
- 15:50Speaker 1: A ruler with virtue knows that control is never complete.
- 15:58Speaker 1: The world will always resist to remember that. Don't think
- 16:03Speaker 1: that when you are in control now, the game is over.
- 16:08Speaker 2: Actually, you have just started playing. Yes.
- 16:12Speaker 1: Control is never complete. The world will always resist. People
- 16:18Speaker 1: will betray. Plants will falter. Storms will rise. Do you
- 16:28Speaker 1: think because you are in control now, even the storms
- 16:33Speaker 1: will calm down forever. Do you think the close ones
- 16:38Speaker 1: to you will never betray because you think you are
- 16:42Speaker 1: in full control? Storms will rise, but power never lies.
- 16:50Speaker 2: On avoiding resistance.
- 16:54Speaker 1: If you here want to play it calm and lazy,
- 17:01Speaker 1: You don't want to face any resistance. You want to
- 17:04Speaker 1: play everything calm and you want to save your energy.
- 17:12Speaker 1: Power lies on not avoiding resistance. It lies on adapting
- 17:25Speaker 1: faster than anyone else would. Thank you for joining us
- 17:34Speaker 1: on our today's episode. Until next time, stay safe. Read
- 17:45Speaker 1: The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. Wait for me. Wait, wait.
- 17:57Speaker 1: I am your host, Satanist Craig Jamil, with your co-host,
- 18:06Speaker 1: Zapata Futuda, who.
- 18:10Speaker 2: Just left our studios right now.
- 18:16Speaker 1: Until next time, again, hail Saturn.
- 18:36Speaker 2: Thank you.