ok, as many know, there are many people today in pirate craft who are deemed “powerful and wealthy” or just a pain in  the ass. (aka horisa) but what this post is about is how over time, i have started to notice things have been changing in power from those who have it now, to the favors of others.

Now before you go on you will probably ask

WHAT IS THE 48 LAWS OF POWER

The 48 laws of power is a basic understanding and a set of guidelines of how one can get and or take power from others, especially those who are influenced by him. here are the 48 laws of power in order

Law 1: Never Outshine The Master
Law 2: Never put too Much Trust in Friends
Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions
Law 4: Always Say Less than Necessary
Law 5: So Much Depends on Reputation
Law 6: Court Attention at all Cost
Law 7: Get Others to Do the Work for You
Law 8: Make Other People Come To You Use Bait
Law 9: Win Through Your Actions – Not Argument
Law 10: Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky
Law 11: Learn To Keep People Dependent on You
Law 12: Use Selective Honesty to Disarm Your Victim
Law 13: Asking for Help Appeal to People’s Self Interest
Law 14: Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy
Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally
Law 16: Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor”>Law 17: Cultivate an air of Unpredictability
Law 18: Isolation is Dangerous
Law 19: Do Not Offend the Wrong Person
Law 20: Do Not Commit to Anyone
Law 21: Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker
Law 22: Surrender Tactic: Transform Weakness into Power
Law 23: Concentrate Your Forces
Law 24: Play the Perfect Courtier
Law 25: Recreate Yourself
Law 26: Keep Your Hands Clean
Law 27: Create a Cult: Play on People’s Need to Believe
Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness
Law 29: Plan all the way to the End
Law 30: Make Your Accomplishments Seem Effortless
Law 31: Get others to Play with the Cards you Deal
Law 32: Play to People’s Fantasies
Law 33: Discover Each Man’s Thumbscrew
Law 34: Be Royal in Your Own Fashion – Act Like a King.
Law 35: Master the Art of Timing
Law 36: Disdain things you cannot have
Law 37: Create Compelling Spectacles
Law 38: Think as you like, but behave like others
Law 39: Stir Up Waters to Catch Fish
Law 40: Despise the Free Lunch
Law 41: Avoid Stepping into a Great Man’s Shoes
Law 42: Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep Will Scatter
Law 43: Work on the Heart and Mind of Others
Law 44: Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect
Law 45: Preach Change But Never Reform Quickly.
Law 46 Never Appear Too Perfect
Law 47: In Victory Learn When To Stop
Law 48: Assume Formlessness</span>
here is a video as well for more information on each law and how it is used throughout history.

https://youtu.be/670ZGMBjrPI

but now you wonder: “how is this used in piratecraft to help out others or even me?”

well with a basic understanding of these laws, you can better know how to outwit your opponent, especially with laws 5, 11, 14, 21, 26(many of us cannot use this due to our influence on the world), 27 (horsia), 35, 39, 45, and 47.

i see these laws used many times by many people throughout piratecraft. With this information, do as you will.

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee