Manipulation is mental, emotional and spiritual combat aimed at achieving...

Manipulation is mental, emotional and spiritual combat aimed at achieving control without the use of (much) violence.

At the group level is it a form of warfare.

It can even have lethal consequences like actual combat.

Partitioners have honed their skills like fighters.

Just like combat/war the manipulator seeks to:

1. play their hard points against the targets soft points.

2. encourage the target to expend resources/energy so that the manipulator wins by attrition.

3. overwhelm the target with concentration of force.

4. disarm targets.

Their hard points are the GSRRM tactics.

These are strategic lies designed to undermine targets, confuse them, deny them aid and cause them to capitulate voluntarily.

If they know the target they pick the tactics that push his inner buttons the best to get rapid compliance.

Your weak spots are:

a) Mental, emotional or spiritual “buttons” that were installed within you, often during your formative years.

Many of these triggers were used to control you as a child and get cooped by manipulative people.

Example: “You must share your toys or you are a bad and selfish child” (shaming) places a sequence that can be triggered and expanded upon with buttons that justify things like mass immigration (share your nation), socialism (share everything), welfare state (share your money).

Do not under estimate the power of deeply placed behavioural triggers, especially in agreeable people.

These buttons are linked together and trigger a devastating flood of shame, guilt, social anxiety, even dread.

If they were not so powerful they would not have been installed.

b) You other potential weak spot is a fragile ego.

Our ego is our understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.

People who dislike themselves, do not know for sure who they are or lack essential virtues are easy targets for manipulators.

Look for a crack to exploit.

Rootless, cosmopolitan, nationless, culture-less, churchless masses are easily manipulated because they lack an ego (understanding of themselves and the world) that extends beyond them in time and space.

They are nothing and they are part of nothing greater than themselves.

To achieve individual immunity to manipulation we must do 3 things:

1. Study the enemies arsenal. (GSRRM) I will be making more available with details about each item and defenses.

Learn to identify each attack and call them out. Often throwing light on their scheme ends it.

2. Remove your triggers and reprogram your automated responses so that only you can control them. This develops your Agency, protecting you from manipulation.

This is the objective of my book and course below.

3. Build a healthy ego on an objective understanding of your virtues and your place in space and time.

Who are you really? Who are you connected to? Who and what will you fight for?

Manipulators also encourage their target to expend resources/energy so that the manipulator wins by attrition.

The target gives up because it is too exhausting hard to fight.

It takes very little effort to attack someone by gossip and massive efforts to defend your reputation.

Defend yourself by narrowing down the number of people who you care about to a smaller circle of trust.

Stop caring what people you do not like think about you.

Develop your reputation with them so that gossip attacks have no weak spots to exploit.

Do nothing that you could be ashamed of.

Live a life you would be happy to share if needed.

Because nothing we say or do is truly private.

If your private life and beliefs were to become public (doxxed) what would happen? Make a plan and change what is needed.

Remember, they want you to expend more energy fighting back than they expend attacking so that they win by attrition.

Do not engage them or engage them intelligently so that you leverage your network against the manipulators.

Sometimes you need to defuse the attack by agreeing and amplifying or dismissing both work well.

“You are a racist/sexist/homophobe/bigot.” ->

“So what? Who cares, that word has no power over me.”

or do what @jamesfoxhiggins did.

Rationality and reason will not stop an attack that is 100% emotional and manipulative. Defending yourself rationally only fuels the attack.

Provoking your enemy into a frothing mess of over stimulated amygdalas swimming in a sea of cortisol turns their attack back against them

Whatever you do, do not waste energy fighting irrelevant losers who only tear down and undermine.

Have some fun with them if you like, but keep yourself detached while pulling them in and wasting THEIR time or totally cutting off their ability to reach you.

Don’t fight fairly.

Manipulators also try to overwhelm their targets with a concentration of force.

Brigading, rallying, protesting, even gossip is an attempt to overwhelm you by manufacturing massive false “social proof” that you are wrong and should back down to the demands of the manipulator.

On social media use the block and mute button liberally.

The first social media platform to enable sharing of blocking lists will profit.

In real life, directly confront the source of the gossip or have your lawyer do it.

CNN paid $275 million to Nicholas Sandmann over gossip.

Again, narrowing you ingroup to people you personally know and can mutually verify hardens you against external attacks that use overwhelming social pressure.

Worst case, they can not keep up the attack for very long. Drop out of sight for a few days and let it all blow over.

Manipulators want easy targets. They seek to keep everyone else “unarmed”.

The weapons you need to win in a mental, emotional and spiritual war against manipulation are not physical. You can not buy items for protection from manipulation, you must cultivate these weapons it.

Weapons that are effective against manipulation:

• Strong sense of Agency + the skills to reprogram your mind for each new challenge.

• Healthy and connected ego based on objective virtue.

• Strong social connections with your tribe.

• A strong soul aligned towards logos.

A strong soul requires that your appetites and spirt are NOT suppressed, but rather harnessed and used by YOU as power to accomplish what your logical mind (governed by logos) wills.

Stop suppressing yourself, it makes you weak and easy to manipulate.