Ancient words to portrait of contemporary politic

During the read of Plutarch(46°.Ch.-127 a.Ch.), The advises to politic men, is very easy think to daily and contemporary politic men and women, a step of this book says: “…so the politic man , until he hasn’t popularity e trust of people that is fundamental to govern a city, he must be uniform to current think, study it and understand it, where and how he can grant this trust…the soul of Athens people is irascible, but also ready to comprehension, and it is suspicious, and it aides the poor and humbles…Different id s character of people of Carthage, irascible, servile to major and wrong to inferior, unworthy during the fair…”; we must consider that this judge od Plutarch about the Carthage people is alone a heredity of the Punic wars, and it is judge is absolutely false, because when Plutarch written this book, this is the 1th or 2th century after Ch., and the Punic wars occurred at last 4 centuries before, whereby Plutarch didn’t know the people of Carthage. But the read of this book is very important to understand the politic strategy, that, as Plutarch self said regard to times, that already during his life, were different from Athens and Spartan, he describes the better strategy to politic man, hence: “…the politic man doesn’t be equal to people, but when he has understood its wit he must uses the better method to gain the consent, because a politic man that ignores it is destined to the defeat…”; and other politic and human truth: “The people doesn’t allow  easily to manage itself from an unknown and it doesn’t offers nothing motive to managed by somebody…the politic man must consider it and he must be irreproachable also in private life…merited was the fame of tribune of people Livy Drusus, that answering to an artisan, that has proposed to him of hide the sides of his house to the neighbor, Livy said, that he could pay major sum if the artisan if you become transparent so that every citizen can see what I am making”; the other truth that in confront our days is more true that other: “Two are the way  to access to policy: one is brilliant  and swift, and it is because the future politic man has attracted the fame for other motives, and other way is slow but certainly more secure…”, other human truth regard to people is: “The people, in fact, when is convinced to assume the contrary opinion  to his honest chief , after that it is recognized the error he  regrets it, hence attacks whom is motive of his conviction…”. These politic truths are written centuries ago, but today are valid because both the politic men or politic woman use same way, why? Simple because mankind is same from centuries, and the politics are human, and they make as human, that use the strategies Plutarch has descripted, I don’t think that they has read Plutarch, because we must consider us very fortunate if a politic knows read, but experience and observation of reaction to some word or some strategy or politic action is better school to an aspirant politic, because the politic is same and the people is same always.

Alessandro Lusana