PANDEMONIUM
Friendships, no matter how good and how long they have lasted, are bound to turn on you at critical moments. Expect no one to take your punishment for you and expect no one not to take advantage of you if they can be assured that they will not get caught.
Humans are control freaks. The Manipulator knows that, even stronger than the reality of sex and food, is the desire to control sex and food. Once something comes under apparent control, the organism seeks to control other events to the extent that it invents games and devices which provide the opportunity to play the control game. The Manipulator spends a good deal of time analyzing the peculiar way(s) in which people play their control game(s).
The desire to control is so powerful that suicide and mass madness are sometimes the only things which will satisfy the desire.
The Manipulator doesn't believe in the progress of human nature, nor does he believe in the progress of human behavior. The Manipulator operates on the premise that most people seek conflict, both internal and external, to the degree they can tolerate. He helps people seek destruction and death to escape the tension of living. For most people time is tension.
Since most humans can't tolerate too much inner conflict (tension) - as it makes them too aware of time - they seek external causes and events to occupy themselves. Thus, status quo is always defined in terms of the level and type of conflict and tension a person can tolerate.
War serves this purpose as well. As long as conflict and tension can be identified, man is "happy." But as soon as they become covert or internalized, an enemy must be created.
Externalization is one of the best tactics a Manipulator can employ once he knows how to build internal tension in others without causing a rebound effect.
Humans are control freaks. The Manipulator knows that, even stronger than the reality of sex and food, is the desire to control sex and food. Once something comes under apparent control, the organism seeks to control other events to the extent that it invents games and devices which provide the opportunity to play the control game. The Manipulator spends a good deal of time analyzing the peculiar way(s) in which people play their control game(s).
The desire to control is so powerful that suicide and mass madness are sometimes the only things which will satisfy the desire.
The Manipulator doesn't believe in the progress of human nature, nor does he believe in the progress of human behavior. The Manipulator operates on the premise that most people seek conflict, both internal and external, to the degree they can tolerate. He helps people seek destruction and death to escape the tension of living. For most people time is tension.
Since most humans can't tolerate too much inner conflict (tension) - as it makes them too aware of time - they seek external causes and events to occupy themselves. Thus, status quo is always defined in terms of the level and type of conflict and tension a person can tolerate.
War serves this purpose as well. As long as conflict and tension can be identified, man is "happy." But as soon as they become covert or internalized, an enemy must be created.
Externalization is one of the best tactics a Manipulator can employ once he knows how to build internal tension in others without causing a rebound effect.