Men and Women

It was said that being pretentious is necessary to gain control over other less intelligent people thus, acquire higher position within their community. But, a person can be pretentious among other people but they can’t hide their intention perfectly because their non-verbal actions will show their true intention. By only being conceited, we can’t perfectly gain power since we also need a decent education to make the society trust us.

According to Robert Green, to acquire power, a person needs to avoid associating with other people that have no benefits to them. But he never explore the importance of knowing many people. In order to live and win the lower class people’s votes, we have to at least, know them and acts nice to them at least once to make sure we carved a good first impression in their mind.

Well, it is true that we can associate with other people that don’t give benefit to us, but you have to manipulate them with the aim of using them.

Most of the people believed that they don’t pretend in their life and that they are innocent. Even so, since we were a child, we are already being a player of this stage and portray our behavior of deceit, cunning, and slyness. Sometimes when we are involved in a problem, we often have the tendency to use other people as a scapegoat as to make ourselves appear innocent. But the one that appears innocent is the most pretentious of all.

We should know that not all that we learn from philosophy article or books can be used. Not everything they said are true and not everything they said are wrong. We on our own, have to think and consider the other side are true. Even so, we cannot deny the exposition in the article “Men and Women are Merely Players”, as most of us must have at least think that the writer is right.