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by goto11 2237 days ago
I don't get this analogy? Are you suggesting Machiavelli was a random person that didn't know anything about governing? Or that he was a comedian?
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elliekelly 2236 days ago
He was a comedian.[1] A lot of his comedy wouldn’t be considered funny in 2020 but I would guess most comedy doesn’t age well.

[1]https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/machiavelli-comedian

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goto11 2236 days ago
Great, I didn't know that! Truly a renaissance man.

That said, he was also an experienced diplomat, military commander and politician, so the comparison to Jerry Seinfeld is a bit off (unless there is also things about Seinfelds career I don't know about). He wasn't just a comedy writer who out of left field wrote a treatise on government.

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