Random Notes 20160518

The Immorality of Virtue Signaling

Traditionally, Virtue was the manliness of men; in common language, it means balls.  In modern degenerate American Puritanism, Virtue means the following: Emotional self-indulgence in the expression of False Pity for a Target group that the indulgent person knows said target has some repugnant characteristic.  In some sick way, the repugnant characteristic of the target group is directly proportional to the amount of virtue signaled.  

The expectation is that the Virtue Signaler will not expect a challenge to the signal.  When the Signal is challenged, the Virtue Signaler will use Shame on the challenger to perform a one-upmanship procedure with the desire of Confession of Sin on the part of the Challenger.  

Virtue Signaling is an Inquisition using Intimidation and social ostracizing to attack the Challenger.

In any situation of Virtue Signaling, when you identify the culprit and decide go on the attack, the attack must be ferocious, deadly, and Machiavellian in the sense that the Virtue Signaler will suffer from mental anguish for weeks from your attack.  Virtue Signalers must be given no quarter and Zero Tolerance.

Never attack a Virtue Signaler unless you intend to psychologically destroy your target.  Go in for the psychological kill or say nothing.

Trump the Deadly Machiavellian

So far, he has been able to identify some of the Deep State leakers with the firing of Comey. And, the Russian meeting was deliberate, designed to infuriate and generate leak leads. He is managing a Sting Operation, and it is going beautifully. Comey may have even been blackmailed into helping Trump. Only the fools will attack him now, and by their attacks, reveal their hand, and he can take them out. Only fools and those with nothing to lose are on the attack now. Pure Machiavellian. It is a beautiful sight to see. If he can get a guy like Bernie on his side, that would be the icing on the cake. Here is the thing: Trump has an unlimited tolerance for Stress, which his enemies do not understand. They have not read his book, obviously. And, he is a genius for timing - getting the high stress shit out of the way before any major election campaign for midterms. So, he will be brutal and deadly up until the midterm campaigns begin. Do not expect him to let up on all the nasty Machiavellian things until then.

80% of Winning is Psychology

Tony Robbins said this once.  It is true.  You can be the smartest person in the world, and do everything "right," but if your psychology is not right, you will repel people who are trying to help you and attract people who will bring you down.  Misery loves company is a harsh Truth.

A deadly and magnificent combination is High IQ combined with a winning psychology.  We see this in guys playing at the highest level whom refuse to lose, and will always find a way to win, no matter what, and even with what many around them think are impossible odds.  A winning psychology loves when the odds are against him, because he knows he is playing for a big upside if he wins.

Always find a way to win, and win big.

Psychology Findings and Power

Over the past 10-20 years, the findings in psychology have been enormous.  It is now scary when one understands the power of psychology over unsuspecting people.  The other problem is that it also has power over everyone regardless of intelligence and regardless of whether or not the people know anything about it.

Many writers in history have written that Charismatic people change the world.  People with a high level of psychological understanding combined with the will to use power are typically unstoppable.  Some examples where opponents were helpless include: Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Donald Trump.  Powerful people without Charisma who were taken down include the following: Dan Rather, Hillary Clinton, Patrick Buchanan, Trent Lott, and James Comey.  Doing everything correctly and acquiring tons of power is not a defense against a charismatic individual who is ready willing and able to exercise his power.  Historical figures include Hitler, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Napoleon, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Patton, Disraeli, Oscar Wilde, and the list goes on.  In the above list, we only need to list the last name, and we instantly know the person spoken of.  This is the power of charisma.

Studies done in the last few years have deepened our knowledge of psychology, and we can now train people to increase their charisma to a high degree.  We can train people to capture control over the minds of others and manipulate them.  And, the targets will never notice what happened.  We see similar effects online where there are algorithms running in the background of Amazon, and other places that match our past purchases, reviews, and search terms with advanced Bayesian Statistics to produce targeted marketing of items to us, which we seem to be unable to resist often.  This is the power of modern psychology.

There is a lot of benefit and risk to the findings of modern psychology - especially behavioral psychology.  The upshot is that we are closer to robots than we think.  The shocking truth is that with knowledge of some of our key psychological characteristics, we can program ourselves and others.  This is not exaggeration or hyperbole.

We have the ability to reprogram our minds to achieve unseen levels of success and achievement.  The down side is that there are tons of ways to exploit others using this knowledge in a Machiavellian fashion.

Nobody really knows the limits of psychology at this point.  We have only scratched the surface.  And, the strange thing is that more scientific minded people do not even believe the findings.  This is why the findings are not as well known.  People just cannot allow themselves to believe that we are programmable robots - with no exaggeration.

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