Many times it isn’t necessarily calculated, some controlling, narcissistic personality types do this without knowing it is a defined technique, it is just part of their nature.
“Many times it isn’t necessarily calculated, some controlling, narcissistic personality types do this without knowing it is a defined technique, it is just part of their nature.”
Yes I came to the same conclusion when giving it some thought...
I small bit of backround:
We were testing a new version of a popular computer( yea! I spelled it right) game a few years back...
Many members of the “gaming community” (players) wanted certain features from the older game...placed in the new version...
This person was dead set against anything from the old game being put into the new one...and in fact...railed against many of those very features in th old game as well...
This person also attained a status of trust and and “insider” previously as a tester...
Any mention of these features in the testing forums was met with imediate mockey, insults, devils advocation, cherry picking of quotes , strawman arguements ,and strong arming opinions outside of the public discussion to gain visible support...
People became divided between those who had played the old game...and new people who had not....with this person becoming the defacto leader of the latter group...
The subgroup became consensous as the other group gained “ignore” status, was marginalised, and eventualy gave up hope of influencing the game....
Needless to say...the guy got everything he wanted...
The game sucked compared to it’s former versions....
Sales tanked...
A lawsuit resulted between the developer and the licensee from lost profits vs licensing fee’s...
And the game became the laughingstock of the player base who stuck with the old game...
And in hindsight...the guy was a flaming liberal....just a natual aggitator I guess...
Very illustrative.....thank you for posting it...
Indeed. And because their natural behavior leads to the control and oppression of the victims, it is not viable or sustaining in the long-term. Force must be used, with increased aggression. Thus the continuous need to sell and to "recruit", as with other toxic ideologies, vanities, -isms, and -alities.
"Facilitator" is an appropriate word choice. After all, to the uninitiated, a facilitator is one who makes things easier, is an unbiased mediator, or is a harmless point of reference. To those managing a predetermined outcome, the facilitator is the one who makes the goal [of manipulation and control] easier.
Do normal civilized people really need to be taught to tolerate that which by its very nature (e.g. good manners, productivity, kindness, generosity) is tolerable by default? Those things that are by nature filthy, depraved, sinister, dishonest and destructive - those are the things that we are expected to tolerate, by force if necessary. Honest, decent people must be reprogrammed to tolerate the intolerable, because otherwise they would reject it wholesale, as an eye blinks and waters or a nose sneezes in order to expel the foreign object.
People are so used to [being delphied into] tolerating all manner of evil, that they surely must doubt or deny their own ability to think and reason. How else does a deer-in-the-headlights Bambi become president? *Somebody* thought it was a good idea, be it a behind-the-scenes goon generating fraudulent votes, or a braindead hopenchangeiac.
Hope and change is the vain, amorphous goal of satan himself.
Revelation 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.