Sun Tzu was a Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher and writer whose definitive work on warfare, “The Art of War,” continues to be cited for its wisdom some two and a half millennia later.

One sentence stands out to me as more than a simple observation; it resonates as a prophecy of life as we now know it in the 21st century A.D., in a land that Sun Tzu didn’t know existed:

“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.”

– Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”

There is such a wealth of wisdom to be gleaned from the writings of the ancients. But we have to be willing to search for it and to remain open to learning from it.

Unfortunately, not everyone is.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
1/18/26