Daily (Sun Tzu–style) Digital Life Litany for Protection, Direction and Stewardship

Caveat emptier: This post was drafted with help from an AI assistant (Perplexity)— but ideated and edited extensively by the human, Bill Acton

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Lord,

the art of war has moved

from fields and walls

to cables and clouds.

Teach me to know this battlefield.

Let me study myself and the enemy:

my habits, my weaknesses, my impulses;

their tricks, their lures, their timing.

For if I know both,

I need not fear

a hundred phishing attempts.

Help me choose my ground wisely:

to avoid risky sites,

to limit what I share,

to fight only the battles that matter.

The greatest victory online

is to prevent the conflict

before it begins.

Protect my strongholds—

email, banking, identity—

with layers of defense

instead of a single fragile gate.

Where I am weak,

let me reinforce;

where I am strong,

let me stay vigilant.

And grant that my strategy in this digital war

always serves a just peace:

defending the vulnerable,

shielding my household,

and refusing to use

the weapons of deceit

even when they seem effective.

AI‑assisted creative work: This litany is an imaginative parody pastiche using generative AI. It imitates the public persona of [Sun Tzu] for commentary and devotional reflection. It is not created by or affiliated with [Sun Tzu], and should not be taken as his real views or words.

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