September 3, 2017

Yesterday I read Law 44 "Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect".  The author (Robert Greene) insists that mirroring your "opponents"  actions will bring you power by frustrating and angering them. Mr. Greene gives an example from grade school in which another child mimics your every word.  Yes this is infuriating and it usually results in the rebuke and ostracizing of the child doing the mimicry.  There is no true power in holding up a mirror to anyone.  Power is the authority to meet one's responsibilities.  Any power in excess is usurpation or tyranny.  This law doesn't teach one how to be responsible it teaches one to manipulate, bully and intimidate.