taw comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 3 - Less Wrong
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Well yes he was. But he never organized a circle of Slytherins to permanently take over France.
And don't forget how unsuccessful were Machiavelli - model of everything that is Slytherin.
Brits were playing Indians against each other extremely successfully. They took over India before anybody even noticed.
That's a much later time period than Vedic society, but I like it all the same.
I didn't realize we cared about such minor issues in a thread that involved analogies between Hogwarts houses and Communist revolutionary factions ;-)