Sun Tzu teaches that we cannot see our own position clearly. We need the viewpoints of others to give us perspective on our situations. But what happens when that perspective comes through an increasingly political and dishonest media? One part of the answer comes from in this article about America's general unawareness of its own material financial success:

While anyone can get lucky, consistent success is always a matter of understanding Sun Tzu's strategy. While learning strategy from Sun Tzu is a nice shortcut, you can also learn the same principles from painful trial and error or by studying history, as Sun Tzu himself did. If someone is consistently successful, they will always espouse basic strategic principles that most people don't understand.