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Devices of Persuasion (Part 2)

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Preface

This is the second part of Coaxing Devices. A piece of writing conferring about various stratagems of persuasion; a facet of cunning that sways and convinces people to make the decision you desire.

In the first part of this essay, I will break down and analyse the craft of Intimation, drawing reference to Art of Seduction; The Art of Insinuation, a device like no other as there is no possible safeguarding course of action that you can engage in to counteract its potency.

In the succeeding part, I shall break down Law 13; Appeal to People’s Self-Interest, a worthy addition to Intimation. People are inherently selfish, this verity allows you to leverage their self-centeredness through the strategic use of charm and entreaty to lower their opposition.

Employing Intimations

Insinuation is the most unparalleled mode of persuasion and influence. One indefinite suggestion and you have left your mark. An intimation is difficult to catch as it is so understated. It does not manifest straight away, only days later, and when it does it may show itself to be their own thought. Its efficacy makes it one of the most vigorous weapons you could use. It has, furthermore, a unique way of imparting its substance through brave statements accompanied by withdrawal and apologia. Moreover, trite and commonplace talk is coupled with enticing body language and equivocal comments. Intimation is its own expression and this compound is the prescription that penetrates the unconscious.

Direct means are not as effectual in matters of persuasion and influence, being straightforward about your wants and needs is impolitic and foolish yet most people do not know better. Words carry bias and that bias is competing with an extensive stream of predetermined ideology that is already present in the individual’s psychology. So, there is a conflict of preconceived ideas and newly harvested bias. Set out to prevail on people and they will grudge you for it, with the thought that they lack the capacity for conclusiveness. No competent persuader, be it with women or business matters, without becoming adept in the art of intimation.

Intimation is straightforward, all it takes is one trite comment and a seed of suggestion is sowed. The very delicacy of an intimation does not make it unforgettable in its application, it only comes to be prevalent as it grows and pervades the psychology of the subject. The effect is such that it seems as if it sprung up artlessly in a natural manner which makes it all the more astute. It will seem to the subject, furthermore, as if it has been present ahead of time. The inkling sinks in and an elusive crack pierces their vulnerability. A hint dropped in an animated discussion, for instance, is one such convenient smokescreen. One principal key to bear in mind is the vagueness of words, their indefiniteness makes them compelling and inscrutable, leaving your subject somewhat bemused and simultaneously swayed.

Upon leading off an interaction, implying things that people yearn to hear will give you a sufficient impetus for persuasion, with the potentiality for delight and excitement or affluence. This should not be misused and hackneyed, though, for this will disintegrate your course of action. This should be utilised mainly in the opening when their guard is up. There is no exception, just about every individual is deprived of something in life, there is always a sparseness somewhere whether by a large or small margin. Perhaps a rapture of delight that has not come to fruition or a deficiency in adventure. You can identify their insufficiencies by opening them up, and you open them up through divergent suggestion, intimation, and understated inquiry.

By way of illustration, a simple tumble of the tongue that is seemingly a closing remark, or an attractive and enticing source of information, or a declaration that is swiftly followed by apologia. Having a sense of repartee with people arms you with an ideal front, when people are in contemplation, your insinuation is that much more imperceptible. If they are in a state of ignorance, either very loosened up or preoccupied, this is a good opportunity to drop an intimation. People have an organic opposition by their nature, and a mere implication circumvents this verity and appears to them to be something that has arisen inherently. This is the degree to which a simple implication expands, its substance takes a creation of its own.

People’s creative power and wishful fantasy is a lever that can be utilised through an attractive and alluring concept or thought, but to do so you should seize their imaginativeness and get it roused. When a deep yearning is entertained through your persuasion, people are apt to consider and harbour it further. One shall remember, as well, that intimation is the subtle communication of desire and joy. The world lacks secrecy, your yearnings and sentiments are too overt, leaving no space for plotting and mystery. People pine for paradox and unsolved problems, for it gets their imagination spinning, and when you are the person who is stimulating such suspicion, you radiate an aura of charm and appeal that is deprived in our culture.

Body language is also one more device you should be alert and watchful of. Words are a great device for intimation, but body signals, gazes, and glances are all consequential. Become a student of human nature, and learn to scrutinise body language to assimilate its significance. Frankly, your glances and stares are continually being interpreted, thus, transfer the implications to your benefit. If you want to interpret one’s intentions or feelings, observe their body language more than their words, for words are easier to control than a gesture. Your manner of conduct, then, is also of import, your look in your eyes should be one of temptation and charm, and your articulation not absurd.

Leverage People’s Selfishness

“Law 13: When asking for help, appeal to people’s self-interest, never to their mercy or gratitude.” – Robert Greene, 48 Laws of Power

In matters of support, it is more sensible to charm the other’s selfishness other than their appreciation or leniency. Men are so personal and prejudiced that all that is of interest is themselves, other than that, there is not much. Man will, with pleasure, disregard any acknowledgement as this is deemed a dreadful responsibility for him, and to compound it, he does not feel indebted to be thankful. You see, people of this kind are best dealt with in the most succinct time by making it understandably evident that your success is in their interest to advance it.

The pragmatic person is ideally spoken to pragmatically, for that manner is most suitable for his understanding. The brave and tough ought to treat the feeble and inadequate with their vigour, exposing them to acute hardship in order to pull them out of their timidity. The means you use to get to that point is of your choosing, however, self-interest is an impelling force that drives people to act outside their supposed normal ruts. When their demands are met through tempting intrigue, their opposition will be relinquished. If you are putting forward an invitation for support, you are dealing with a person who has requirements to be met. If your capacity to discern his character is poor, you will not be successful in your entreat. You should, therefore, get to know their wants and needs carefully, so as not to muddle your interest with his as that will only result in fiasco.

You can understand one’s psychology through personal inquiry, what is his prestige and social position? Is he despised or conceited? What is his reputation like from what he has told you? Can you discern his motives, is he money-oriented? This is an essential course of action to make as close a precise assessment as possible. To give an example, a despised person will not have a good name, and there is a good chance he may be wrapped up in himself. He may be despised as a result of having little to no acclaim and an incapacity to win people’s heart through charming appeal. On the other hand, a person who is driven by money will be obstinate and strong-willed, more often than not requiring more than appeal to satisfy and thus, a more thorough recognition of their shortcomings will be adequate to soften their aversion and benefit from his flaws.

The various distinctions between you and the person can be detoured by drawing attention to his needs and making them alluring enough so as to entice him. His needs and wants should be given a certain emphasis so as to seem like there is something substantial to be gained for him, while concurrently not disclosing your motives to him as this will unsettle him and conflict with his. Concealment of your motives conveys to him the impression that his needs correspond to yours, and thus presumes that both he and you will emerge with a positive result. To consider the other person’s inclinations and disposition, clear any sentiment that shrouds veracity.

The Masculinity Paradox and Women

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It is rather beguiling how men, being the stronger sex, are the ones who get exploited by women, not the other way around. There is imbued in it a sense of sarcasm how present culture has grown more womanish and unmanly. The tragic paradox, therefore, is that men live in a society that is largely dependent on men’s clever labour for its prolongation, but on the other hand, depresses and subjugates his virile nature which is the very source of his excellence. To persecute someone on his immorality is reasonable, but to bully and rebuke him on his fundamental nature is disturbing and ruinous.

The question of why women are scarcely uncovered and put at risk is a curious one. However, it is a question that you can answer for yourself through observance. The culture we live in today is such that men’s lack of courage and self-respect has brought about the very downfall of its sex, and it will not be undergoing any transformation for its betterment any time soon. Men today are caught in a descending stream of misapprehension. Thus, to talk them out of their own mistaken beliefs is arduous and doubtful. For they can observe evidence of their testimony regarding their beliefs through tinted glasses, and men are less likely to disbelieve it when the case is such. And so, we live in a civilisation that is dilapidating men’s essence progressively. Masculine traits such as dignity, strength, decisiveness, self-assurance etc. are in short supply and weighed down because men have missed their mark, but they are ignorant of this verity.

This leads me to the state of affairs involving women, whose nature too has deviated as a consequence of men’s disillusionment. Women becoming increasingly more masculine, as a side effect of men’s incapacity to live up to their purpose and embrace their nature. We find ourselves, therefore, in a state where men have renounced themselves for women and handed them authority. Invariably, women are incompetent in leadership as it is man’s work to fulfil, but they cannot help but give it up since they lack ability as a consequence of their ill-conditioning.

Think about it, why should a woman acquire the knowledge to resolve a flat tire if a man can do it for her since he is willing to? You see, a woman will resort to men and utilise him should the opportunity arise. Men’s functionality differs, but women, whose life’s work and ambition are inferior to men’s, require men for just about everything. The masculine traits that serve no usefulness to the woman, she will not deem manly. Conversely, those traits which she can benefit from, she will regard as masculine. This leads me to this unpleasant and grating truth; the most impoverished man is almost always the one that gets utilised by the unappealing woman. Without a man’s strength of character, a woman will capitalise on his weakness to their merit without mercy.

There is a strong moral here; when man deviates from his nature, he brings the worst out of women. The destructive aspect associated with the feminine becomes amplified and present in the truancy of a man’s dignity. Having said that, the vast majority of men lack sufficient integrity and modesty to make women respect them, bringing the antagonistic aspect out of a woman’s natural temperament, which should be yielding and soft. You will never be treated with soft submission if you lack the competency to be firm and assured with a woman. Understand the polarity, women detest frailty and compliance in men as that is the very function of the feminine.

If you want to have a favourable outcome with women, therefore, make your purpose your prime concern as this is your life’s work. You give your life supreme meaning through the diligent work you put towards carrying out your purpose as a man. Remember: no matter your pursuit, you live in a ruthless system that is intended to benefit off your shortcomings because mankind is self-absorbed. However, the incongruous verity remains that a man is continually looking, through wilful blindness, for someone to sell him into bondage and more often than not, it is a woman he picks out. For only as a drudge does the man feel stable and shielded. His life’s principle revolves around the doctrine of delight in imprisonment as he lacks the strength of character to sustain a relationship with a woman as a fine accompaniment to his already content life. Instead, he incarcerates himself for her, neglecting his life’s work and conforming to her territory as that is his prime concern.

The most substantial inaccuracy you can make is to presume that you are an equivalent to the feminine. This is to say that women are of identical emotional and mental ability as men, which is silly and unfruitful for both genders in question. The biological and organic make up associated with both sexes is such that they personify a polarity that enables both the function of the masculine and feminine to coordinate in perfect euphony. However, when the stronger function of the masculine is deficient to operate and act as its nature implies, the inferior function, in this case the feminine, is in a state of dissonance. The deficiency of the masculine is a consequence of a culture and way of life that has conditioned men in a way that subdues their masculine essence.

Men’s abstract ideals of women are also, invariably, a ramification of their dishonourable conditioning. For, a man sees a woman fulfilling her role in her home, by cooking, cleaning, doing the dishes, and other such jobs that involve the household and the family’s wellbeing, and it scarcely crosses his mind that these responsibilities inherently make her untroubled. Moreover, if a man stopped from his careless hurry to development and re-evaluated his course of action, he would come to grasp that his striving to convey to a woman a sense of encouragement, is utterly ineffective and to no avail. Nevertheless, when the man comes to the recognition of the vanity in the culture of the woman, naturally, he believes it is his liability and is restraining her. In the present time, though, the roles have tipped over, and the dependency that the woman once had upon the man is no longer customary.

Presently, the genders are conflicting and in total discord, women have grown increasingly masculine, men increasingly effeminate. The traits associated with favourable masculinity has come to be sparse, and the traits associated with favourable femininity has come to be just as unusual. Evidently, today, men possessing such traits as integrity, stateliness and dominance are regarded as pariahs that have not conformed to societal norms. You see, men have become such a letdown, that when such traits as stateliness, integrity, and toughness are exhibited, it is regarded as radical to the common people. Do not feel compelled, therefore, to abide by societal norms. If you have not acknowledged the disarray of this cruel system, there is a good chance you have been taken in by it. To conform to a system that subverts your masculinity is to wreck your magnificent potentiality as a man whose purpose in life transcends any dogma and tyranny.

You must identify where your indisposition lies, find out how you have come to be a casualty in the system and untie yourself from it. Your purpose as a man is not your connection with a woman, this is merely an accessory, it is your divine aptitude with which you will serve the world. This is your power, and one no one can take away from you till your demise. It is your life’s work, it should be your prime concern without further negotiation. Women only have their place when your life purpose has been determined and established. This is the perfect panacea to avert your desperateness and craving for sexual relations.

To compound it, careful consideration for your physique is of great importance. Your body is a reflection of your inner being in many ways and a well-kept body signifies self-respect and pre-eminence. A poorly kept body looks careless and indicates a lack of discipline in physical wellbeing. Furthermore, better your intellectual capacity through industrious study of brilliant writing. In other words, read great books that will serve you. Two crucial themes are power and prudence since the common people are inadequate in cunning and canniness. In other words, they lack competence and intelligence. The third should be that of your vocation, which will push you forward towards impeccable mastery in execution and knowledge.

If you are in charge of the realms mentioned above, you will be so well ahead of the crowd, that you will start to regard mediocrity with some contempt, acknowledging first hand how inferior present standards are.

Dark Triad: An Outline of Psychopathy

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Preface

Psychopathy is an anti-social personality disorder that is archetypal of misanthropic behaviour that distinguishes itself through a lack of empathy, an absence of contrition, and an unwavering audacity that typically frightens more than it soothes. Anti-Social Personality Disorder can be explained as a penetrating standard of ignorance and indifference as well as an invasion of others’ liberty. This pattern usually emerges in youth or early teens and carries on into maturity. Psychopathy is also, furthermore, one of the traits that form the Dark Triad, the other two being Narcissism and Machiavellianism. It is designated ‘Dark’ for its unethical connection to the crime, brutality, and corrupt use of stratagem.

Approximately 50 per cent of the gravest offences in the likes of homicides or sexual assault are perpetrated by psychopaths, and that will inevitably persist. As a rule of thumb, not all psychopaths are serial killers, but all serial killers are psychopaths. An individual who, before the age of 15, has shown disturbance in behaviour and possessed at minimum three of the ensuing behavioural traits is identified with an anti-social personality disorder: unwillingness to comply with societal norms, deception by fabrication and perjury, impetuousness, hostility and irritability, careless ignorance for their own and others’ safety, reckless, and remorseless. However, I shall draw a distinction here, on the one hand, psychopathy is a dispassionate and unemotional vacuum, whereas ASPD (anti-social personality disorder) is psychopathy with supplemental emotion.

As a synopsis, psychopathy is a kind of compound of character residue. A disorder that is an amalgam of numerous entwined constituents, with a variety of assorted dimensions such as the interpersonal, emotional, living, and unsociable elements.

The Psychopathic Essence, An Analysis

The Sports Car and The Flawless Facade

Imagine a high-end sports car that is simultaneously swift and menacing. That is much comparable to Psychopathy, the blade cuts both ways and it is inevitable. Psychopaths have an abnormal aptness of getting what they want from people, and they know how to wear a mask better than anyone you know as it is their method of shielding to mingle cordially with everyone else. One distinct commonality between all psychopaths is their exemplary capacity to disguise themselves as normal people, this excellent mask is the necessary camouflage for a stone-hearted beast to blend in with the common people, who are seen as mere inferiors in his eyes. This radical contrast between the facade and the actual reality is the reason why everyone is captivated by the psychopath, this ability of theirs to seem so innocuous around ordinary people.

Note: Psychopaths are more superior at reading people than you are at reading them. Their strong powers of judgement and intuition enable them to unearth the right people that they can employ for their own merit. Furthermore, they are astute persuaders as a consequence of their lack of emotions. They know the proper buttons to operate without feeling the heat, this is tremendously favourable.

Their facade utilises a charming and personable aura that serves as the ideal concealment. They exhilarate and enthral with their spellbinding presence, drawing people in, in the most nonchalant fashion. They understand thoroughly that one of the finest ways to handle people is to tell them what they want to hear, and how helping someone is the most effortless way to deceive them. Not to mention, a psychopath’s short-term sexual game plan is untarnished, since their traits exude a heightened alpha dominance that women fall on their knees for. I say in the short-term for the reason that long-term relationships are demanding for psychopaths, as emotion is not pertinent to them. As a consequence, their lack of attachment and emotion makes them inept to reciprocate intimacy in the long-term with a partner of the opposite sex, although they can use forgery to preserve intimacy should they desire to hold out the relationship. As a matter of fact, a Psychopath uttering “I love you” carries no emotional depth and from his point of view, it is as emotionless and idle as saying “I am going for a walk.” Verbal communication carries no poignant depth for the psychopath.

Sensory Mechanisms and Frequencies

Psychopaths do not get alarmed nor fearful, they do not mislay their calm demeanour and in the heat of an acute circumstance, they are uncommonly valiant, as their fear mechanism is not sensitised like most people’s. Human beings are antagonistic to risk, their survival instinct and fear mechanism holds them back from undertaking a dangerous state of affairs.

By way of illustration, if you were ever involved in a state of affairs where, for instance, you were on a plane with other unknown passengers, and in the most unforeseeable fashion, the plane undergoes turbulence and it is as if suddenly, everyone turns stiff and apprehensive to death. As you acknowledge this, you grow increasingly uneasy and tense. Well, there is a good chance you are responding to other people’s terror over anything. The mechanisms that steer your emotions are not oriented for contemporary living conditions. In the west, people are inherently overanxious and neurotic, their fear and emotional mechanisms have copious authority over their life. In contrast, a psychopath would not feel troubled if his house is burning down.

The Human Brain Waves

Besides, there are four brain frequencies, that differ from beta, alpha, theta, and delta. Beta indicates intervals of towering vigilance and awareness, Alpha signifies times of mental repose, tranquillity, and inventiveness. Theta signifies a contemplative state, recollection, and intuitiveness. Lastly, Delta denotes detachment and restorative deep sleep. Moreover, these waves impart how diverse periods in time alters brain frequency. What is absorbing here, though, is that for most people, theta waves are analogous with meditative and dozing states, whereas, for psychopaths, it is associated with their waking state as it transpires in their ordinary waking hours and even occasionally, during sexual arousal.

Lack of Feeling

Psychopaths have a shortage of understanding others, their lack of feeling renders them incapable of grasping other people’s emotional rationale. It is simply not possible for a psychopath to have any concern or importance in the battle of mankind, or calamity and delight. To put it straightforwardly, he is incapable and unconcerned simultaneously.

For that reason, it has been declared that a psychopath receives the words but not the music. The music here, signifying feeling. However, they can put on a facade, as I have stated, and dissimulate their comprehension to make up for their inadequacy. High IQ psychopaths are especially proficient in concealing this scarcity by putting on the most cogent and compassionate front that is perplexing to discern.

Cleckley interprets the psychopath as “an intelligent person, characterised by a poverty of emotions, the absence of a sense of shame, egocentricity, superficial charm, lack of guilt, lack of anxiety, immunity to punishment, unpredictability, irresponsibility, manipulativeness, and a transient interpersonal lifestyle.” 

High-Powered Traits

Fundamentally, though, the ultimate divergence that differentiates the psychopaths from ordinary people is their careless attitude towards other people’s judgement of them, they are utterly indifferent to what others think. This distinction is substantial as the ordinary person is so sensitive to the immediate surroundings, that it affects and determines his behaviour in various ways. On the other hand, the psychopath is impervious to it, it does not phase him in the slightest. In other words, psychopaths could not concern themselves any less with regard to how their conduct will be envisaged by the general public or the world at large, as they are downright indifferent to it.

The central qualities of the Psychopath can be abridged as extravagant self-worth, competence in persuasion, exterior superficial charm, ruthlessness, lack of remorse, and proficiency in cunning. If you ponder it, these are the very traits of politicians in power and that has imbued in it a precept. That is, psychopathy is not as a matter of course, synonymous with crime and brutality, it is as prevalent and customary in the aristocratic ranks where cunning and ruthlessness are requisites to sustain power. Reaching the heights of power is arduous, and you should understand that intelligence alone is inept, it is a competent constituent when it is amalgamated with other traits. Also, you ought to learn to utilise the ideal people by standing on their shoulders, as it were, while concurrently appealing to their self-concern and never to their futility. While psychopaths with a low intelligence quotient find themselves getting implicated in delinquency and lawbreaking, psychopaths with a high intelligence quotient inhabit the higher ranks, leveraging and taking advantage of their condition by becoming influential and powerful superiors.

Three highly beneficial and advantageous traits to possess, if you want to grow more influential and superior, are the strength of character, inquisitiveness, and insensitivity. Insensitivity, in particular, is a potent weapon to acquire in your ascendancy. For the reason, that insensitivity does not keep you awake at night trembling in terror and perpetually neurotic like your competitors. This is its remarkable aptitude, serene self-control and poise that is not interrupted by trivial or grave difficulties. For the psychopath, this is their default, unvarying condition as they are simply callous but for the ordinary person, this must be cultivated through objectivity and disengagement. Furthermore, you must not let your emotions have jurisdiction over your demeanour or decisions in the heat of the moment, for this will exhaust you mentally and bring rise to unnecessary apprehension that is of no utility to you. You exercise detachment through observing your sentiments but not letting them administer you, you simply watch them without identification.

Psychopathic Traits to Refine

Have Unwavering Boldness

Do not be reluctant of standing out of not fitting in with the rest of the crowd, beside the point of what other people think of you. Psychopaths have a steady and resolute frame that is grounded in boldness, they could not care less what others think of them, and you should not, either. I have always found it beguiling how we are more interested in ourselves than others but we merit other people’s opinion over our own. To embody unwavering self-control, you shall concern yourself more with your own opinion of yourself than with others. In the same light, most people are wrapped up in themselves, and thus their judgement of you should not be taken to heart and nor should you try to please them as that too is a consequence of concern.

Impose Robust Boundaries

Psychopaths have robust boundaries, their ruthless nature warrants this as well as their lack of remorse. If you do not know how to impose strong boundaries, people are going to walk over you every chance they get, chiefly if it appeals to their dividends. You ought to cultivate a higher self-concern and say ‘No’ when circumstance necessitates so as not to give people the opportunity to coerce you into a state of affairs that may lead to your undoing. Moreover, enemies pose as friends many a time merely to come to have what they want off of you. Comprehend this and know how to fence it accordingly without coming off as ill-mannered. It is not necessary to be discourteous to disentangle yourself from an undesirable case. Courtesy and discreetness are the ideal alternatives.

Learn Persuasion and Cunning

Psychopaths have a natural aptitude for coaxing people into doing what they want. This is a ramification of their immunity to the immediate warmth associated with talking someone into doing what you want. For a psychopath, it is quite like touching a heated pan without your hand getting to be sore. For that reason, you have to become competent in disconnecting your emotions from conduct and condition. That is to say, you unfasten the sentiment from the circumstance, and formulate your incentive so as to seem as if it is of service to them, and if they pass on it, they will be squandering a lucky chance. You encourage such gripping desire by making them feel honourable with respect to what you want them to do, reassuring them they will be better off. Building rapport with your recipient is substantial nonetheless, being in tune and adapting your words relevantly should be employed throughout to lower their resistance. To learn more with regards to cunning, read some of my other work under essay archive.

Don’t Take Things to Heart

Learn to not take offence or get upset over trivial matters, especially any sort of verbose which usually stems from bitterness or distaste. People have a propensity to ascribe particular motives to what people utter, and this is not often the case yet even if so, this is not your difficulty but theirs. If people bring up an allegation against you, do not let a passion unfold. Being theatrical in defending your position is not going to convince, it merely makes you look unconfident by means of seeking vindication through justification. You should, firstly, consider some inquiry, and form a picture of what your course of action would be if you were not so reactive. Secondly, consider also what your course of action would be if you were insensitive to other people’s verbose. This contemplation will make it evident to you that your sensitised response in the former holds you back from ruthless and assured action. And moreover, it will make it apparent to you that the course of action you formulated in the latter is more direct and self-regarding.

Do not get Troubled, Maintain your Cool

Psychopaths have a capacity to maintain their calm collected composure even in acute situations, they have a zero forbearance policy on worry, and it does not master them in the slightest, even under severe circumstances that may, in the ordinary individual, give rise to dreadful anxiety. Psychopaths, much like competent monks, possess a state of mind that is watchful yet present, giving neuroses no time to perpetuate their condition. In the same way, you should not be swift in reacting to the immediate situation at hand, stay unruffled and do not ever get flustered, it is fruitless. Getting flustered will not resolve any potential difficulty in view, and it will certainly not make the state of affairs any more advantageous. Let things unfold, for even if things do not go your way, maintaining your superior condition is laudable and people will regard you for it.

Irrational Confidence and Ruthlessness

Psychopaths possess almost unreasonable confidence that stems from their outrageous egocentricity but invariably, when it is coupled with their superficial charm, people find them hypnotic as they carry it in a daring fashion. There is a good reason why psychopaths find means to get what they want, it is their self-assurance and ruthlessness. Their self-concern is more important than other people’s sentiments and thus, whatever reaching their ends demand, they will do unapologetically in the most intrepid manner. You have to be assured of yourself, you need to have the nerve to go after what you want without apologia nor expression of regret. Unless you have imposed injury, you do not own anyone an apology, even if it may seem like you are bullied into it through mental masturbation, it is needless and makes you look inadequate. Stand up straight with strong posture, own your walk and have high regard for yourself. Your stateliness is the most valuable badge of honour, do not be careless with yourself. Embrace your virility and refrain from seeming timid, for it will make you look inferior without exception.

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The Essential Principles of the Red Pill (Part 2)

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Preface

This is the succeeding part of ’The Essential Principles of the Red Pill’. In the previous essay, I discussed the very basic principles that gave newcomers a brief introduction to what the red pill stands for, and for the people familiar, a recollection of the fundamentals. In this second issue, I shall examine four dominant themes; The Biological Imperative and Procreation, Imagination and Frame, The Alpha Mental Picture, and Spinning Plates. The subsequent themes are to some degree more elaborate than those of the preceding issue, nevertheless, they are the crucial building blocks of your substructure and so, they should not be set aside as they are indispensable for grasping Red Pill principles.

The Biological Imperative and Procreation

For the woman to comply with her biological imperative, the feminine had to formulate communal conventions and mechanisms that ensure the woman will, nevertheless, satisfy her biology by entangling with men of superior genes (20% of men) in the short-term, while tying up the men with provisioning in the long-term (80% of men). This imperative is induced through an instinctive necessity for safety and security. Both genders are constrained and to a degree controlled by the development of the sexes. After all, it is only well reasoned to offer your children the most favourable conditions possible for their continuance.

On the one hand, men are such that their reproductive strategy is for their genetic substance to be dispersed to the most expansive range of available females. Conversely, for women, proportionate to her sexual attraction, she will select the foremost conceivable mate that will fulfil her imperative for security and possible offspring. In other words, they are the strainers of their procreation. What is more, is that men must abandon their reproductive agenda to fulfil and provide for the women’s. It is not possible for the woman and the man to comply with their own respective reproductive strategies concurrently, one must be deserted for the other, usually, it is the man who renounces his power.

There is a quandary surrounding single moms, where she bears the child of the ‘good genes’ man, subsequently finds a ‘good dad’, resolves him for provisioning, and assures the man to take care of her ‘good genes’ child. As I have expressed, the short-term implies the alpha, the long-term, the beta and thus, for the woman to secure the benefits of both realms, the indispensability to cheat is prevalent. From the women’s frame of mind, it is not their willed intention to entangle men into abiding by their imperative, rather, it happens heedlessly through the evolutionary expansion of female nature. Nevertheless, they succumb to this dynamic even if they are ignorant of it. From a developmental point of view, this is like coming first in the raffle, hitting two birds with one stone; high-quality genes from the alpha, provisioning and security from the beta.

Imagination and Frame

If there is one tool you ought to master in your toolbox, it would be a woman’s imagination, as it is the most advantageous. Body language, competition anxiety, and demonstrating high value all rest upon the rousing of imagination. If you know how to prompt her imagination, through reframing, concealing information, and acting deliberately enigmatic and puzzling, you have what can be regarded the most potent and profitable tool in your relationships, flings, and so forth.

We are of the belief that honesty is the best policy and chumps, especially, heavily endorse this as they are of the conviction that by being honest people will like you more and you will win the favour of the people. These men are talking gibberish and their ignorance of the underlying dynamics of inter-sexual relations is evident in their words and actions. Women do not in truth hope for you to be wholly honest with them, they want to be amused and messed with. However, chumps, more often than not, divulge everything about their personal life in a single throw and shatter the puzzle before they even start playing. Women feel deep sexual contentment from assuming they have worked out a man through imaginary instinct.

Nevertheless, when a man discloses his personality and narrative through words, the surge of intrigue and suspicion is banished. At that moment, what was once inscrutable and interesting has grown unduly familiar and foreseeable. When you, as it were, fill the unknown ‘blanks’ which she pervades with myth and imagination, you spoil the conundrum and the game you are playing with her. This is a relevant point to refer to Law 4; Always say less than necessary. (48 Laws of Power)

”Power cannot accrue to those who squander their treasure of words.”

Robert Greene, 48 Laws of Power

He who knows how to dispose of his words and signaling is more precious. For the reason that you create dissimilarities through your shortage of words and also, your stateliness is amplified by this very act. Use an excess of words sparingly, you do not want to cultivate an air of ordinariness by becoming loquacious, this makes you look mindless and effortlessly swayed.

”It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.”

Cardinal de Retz

Contrary to what many women utter, they do not seek consolation with a sexual prospect they want to be involved with. Really, they want to feel eager and excited about your unpredictability, this anxiety is not induced through becoming ordinary to her. She does not desire comfort, she fantasises about the thrill and exhilaration of an enigmatic and reticent sexual partner that knows how to keep her on her heels in anticipation.

An all too common omission White Knights (frustrated chumps) make when going into a relationship with a woman is they relinquish their own frame in order to submit to hers. Frame is essentially your underlying narrative from which you precede. If you possess a strong frame, your discernment is such that you regard yourself highly and are self-concerned, you have dignity and integrity, and you will not disregard them in an acute state of affairs. Having said that, if you renounce your frame for a woman, your frame is frail and inadequate for relationship commitment. A frail frame is one that lacks what the strong frame doesn’t. Below is the contrast in attributes:

Strong Frame: Unpredictable, Integrity, Dignity, High-Regard of Oneself, Disagreeable, Ruthless (when necessary), Self-concerned, Assertive.

Weak Frame: Unstable, Insecure, Timid, Agreeable, Effeminate, Submissive, Hesitant, Vulnerable, Self-less.

The striking contrast between possessing a strong frame as opposed to a weak frame is plainly obvious. This comparison emphasises one distinct point, most men today, for the most part, equate with the weak frame predominantly. The notable minority of men, on the other hand, personify strong frame. Besides, the weak frame is figuratively feminine, and thus, you could draw the inference that most men behave like women as a consequence of their delicate and soft qualities.

You must understand, also, that the frame with which you set foot in your relationship is the basis and ground for the fate of that connection. If you are still of the notion that you will yield to her world and merely exist in it, make yourself a favour and break it off in readiness because you will come out overthrown and thwarted. The consequences of such a defeat will be catastrophic, principally for men with a weak frame. Having contemplated that, your only successful and effectual course of action is for her to enter your world, not vice versa. You are the prize in your eyes and that ought to be your prime concern.

In addition, you must cultivate, through the betterment of your circumstances, the qualities attributed to the strong frame. Predominantly, your sense of dignity and unpredictability, and too, your self-regard and situational ruthlessness. These facets are not developed from day to night, they are symptoms of diligent effort in your pursuits, a prudent study of relevant material, and physical superiority through building up your body. Possessing such qualities will inherently generate a strong frame, as the strength of your frame is the side effect of your essential character. Furthermore, you must learn how to convey meaning covertly, as this is women’s primary medium for communication.

Communicating covertly to your girlfriend will rouse such feelings of misgiving and umbrage that women unconsciously yearn for, and there is a cascade of sexual stimulation involved in conveying particular implications indirectly that gets her hamster reeling out of control. Men’s primary medium of communication is overt and plain to see, such as words, whereas women’s is disguised and undercover. Note: If you want to comprehend a woman’s genuine intentions, watch her actions, not her words. Women are ruled by their emotions, and their words usually do not line up with their actions, you must distinguish the two without error. The majority of men are of the opinion that the essentials of Game cannot be utilised in a relationship or marriage since you have ‘tied’ her up. Here is a fine arcane secret for you; the same temperament and devices necessary to attract her are unchanging and imperative also to retain her.

The Alpha Mental Picture

There are much disagreement and argument in regards to this subject matter. Even if you have been part of the Red Pill for time, there are still numerous errors that need clarification. Instead of beginning by remarking what Alpha is, I shall first point out what it is not, this way, you shall comprehend the mental picture with better lucidity. Alpha is not conditional on your height nor your abdomen, nor your facial structure, and neither on how virile and tough you seem. Nevertheless, these aspects complement and substantially louden your self-image in people’s appreciation. Furthermore, alpha is not at all about being hostile, combative, and uncontrollably autocratic. Having said that, though, possessing the potentiality to exhibit stone-hearted qualities such as ruthlessness and savagery are favourable in the pertinent circumstances.

I shall note here, for further elucidation, that you must rightly differentiate between having the capacity for aggression and being deliberately belligerent by design. On the one hand, the man with the capacity for cruelty is prudent in his conduct, on the other, he is senseless and compulsive to the point of hostility without foresight. You shall, for that reason, identify your flaws and bring them into equilibrium with your strong points. If, for instance, you are excessively aggressive, you shall adjust your care and concern to even out your superiority. Remember: Contrast is majestic, and thus you shall acknowledge and adapt immoderate qualities to make the contrast beguiling and enthralling, not alarming and repulsive.

I shall now discuss the intricacies of the Alpha and elaborate on some points from the preceding bits. Firstly, you ought to recognise that the essential qualities of the Alpha are bound to be muddled by bigotry, this is inevitable. Of course, your self-image is more concerned with how harmoniously it lines up with Alpha attributes. To be able to observe these qualities with an absence of prejudice is unlikely. For people with a natural Alpha affinity, no self-analysis is necessary, they just get it, the frame of mind is internalised and many a time they are ignorant of it. Consider a young boy with a lack of insecurity and self-consciousness, he does not know the turnaround. He is the pure, unconditioned and natural alpha, he discerns and exhibits alpha better than most teenage and adult men, in fact. The rationale behind the boy’s unrefined nature is that the boy has not been made conscious of it, it is undisturbed and as a consequence, his disposition is impervious to external influence.

On that account, Alpha is a state of mind that is not systematic or analytical. Consequently, there are alphas in prison and there are alphas in wheelchairs, the mere variance lies in application, not in their mental outlook. There are various alphas in accordance with differing contexts, however, it is of import to recognise that an alpha mindset is not tied to one environment, it is expansive and situational. Also, I see many men appealing on Reddit whether particular conduct is alpha or beta, this, of course, is a foolish question to ask and is in and of itself beta. Whether one gesture is alpha or beta is beside the point, as being alpha is not a move you make, it is a mental picture you’re in, and that renders your actions in their entirety and not in isolated fragments. So, I encourage you to put an end to imprudent questions like these and concede the bigger picture. For it will be of great bonus for you to consider that your essential nature is knowingly alpha, except, I must add that you shall, at first, unlearn the flawed preconceived notions of your virility that have been imbued within by a society that exterminates your masculine ethos.

The meaning, therefore, is that you are not Alpha as a result of your doing, your doing is the result of being Alpha. Moreover, you hold a value hierarchy and your denotation of alpha is contingent upon your values. Thus, your discernment of someone who you regard alpha does not signify an alpha state of mind. On that note, a man who slept with 200 women and was imprisoned does not immediately translate to him having an alpha mindset by necessity. There are full-blown betas who slept with more than 100 women, not as a direct consequence of having an alpha mindset, but perhaps through physical superiority or notability.

Spinning Plates

“Women would rather share a high-value male than be saddled with a faithful loser.”

Rollo Tomassi, The Rational Male

A man’s merit and self-assurance with women is directly proportionate to his power to choose between multiple women. A plate refers to a prospect who you may be involved with unaccompanied by the intention of becoming exclusive with her. Spinning plates is essentially dating multiple women non-exclusively concurrently. This course of action is generally classified by women and betas as dishonest, unprincipled, and downright inappropriate. This leads me to a rather incongruous truism; women are inherently more competent and proficient at spinning plates than men. Yet again, we see the evident conflict between a woman’s actions and her words. Women are hypergamous by nature, they branch swing and filter the superior from the weak. For, their hypergamy necessitates that they continually seek the higher value male.

Hypergamy, in point of fact, does not care whether you take out the trash every morning, buy her flowers on valentines, or pamper her with gifts on her birthday. A woman does not concern herself with your feelings, this is a hard pill to swallow. If you are looking to unfasten your feelings, it better not be with a woman as it is the last thing she anticipates in a man. She does not desire a man who is emotionally vulnerable in her eyes, it dries her up and her respect for him promptly diminishes. She wants a stoic rock, not an unfortified gentle child. If you need emotional release, find deviant means but never go to your woman for resolve, it will be disastrous. Spinning plates enables you to exercise objectivity and aloofness, both of which women cannot resist.

Through spinning different plates you are less invested in each, this lack of investment manifests as a consequence of your growing choices, and in turn, provides you with a frame of mind of abundance that women, principally, detect. Their discernment is such that you are seen as a man that is desired by other women and that induces in her competition anxiety that sexually excites her. What’s more, this state of affairs brings about a shift in your conduct that radiates a natural aura of confidence that high-value alpha men, predominantly, seem to exhibit almost effortlessly. This is a consequence of profusion, what you have done is overturned the narrative and got women to contend for your time and yielding to your frame instead of the ordinary reversal. In other words, you are the prize.

Cocky Funny, for instance, is a manner which Alpha males exhibit by nature, they do not think about it, it is an aspect of their temperament. For, it is commonplace behaviour for men with choices to conduct themselves with a playful cockiness and a comical aspect. Thus, this must be recompensed by men with a lack of options by exercising it around women throughout daily interaction. It shall be implemented voluntarily until you get more prospects in line, and it will increasingly become second nature as your abundance of women grows and your game gets tighter.

Spinning plates is, furthermore, the countermeasure to oneitis (refer to part 1). The deliberate act of seeing multiple women concurrently arms you with the adequate assurance and credence that if one plate tumbles over, you have got two or three more plates who are sexually available for you to fill the space. When women notice that you are hardly troubled by it, they become enraged and in numerous instances, come creeping back into your life. The way you let her go without concern, knowing you cannot negotiate desire while enjoying other choices, she grows diffident yet captivated by your unemotional, steady demeanour.

Understand: You shall cultivate with your plates unsparing transparency as well as a responsibility to sincere non-exclusivity with them. By doing so, you retain frank choices and you are both on the same page. If she does not comply, she is welcome to leave under those terms. By exercising honest non-exclusivity, you also insinuate that you got other options, or give the impression that you do. If you are cunning, utilise sincerity in this circumstance to disguise your artifice in another. Women are naturally more cunning than men, thus, play your cards competently and make her play with the cards you deal. It is of good value to note, that you do not convey your honesty overtly through words, you make your intentions known covertly.

If you got social proof from other women, all the better. Indirect means are always most favourable, for they have an element of ambiguity that leaves women gaps to fantasise. For instance, if you are with a plate at a house party, and another plate happens to be there, do not be reluctant to flirt with the other plate and rouse some jealousy. To sum up, if you expand a strong frame (refer to Imagination and Frame), exercise honest non-exclusivity, the right impression will be evidently implied in your actions. As a side note, be prudent in your words.

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The Essential Principles of the Red Pill (Part 1)

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Preface

The origins of what we now call the red-pill dates back to the early 2000s, on a pick-up forum which was at that time known as SoSuave. SoSuave was simply a forum where guys discussed Game, exchanged ideas, and so forth. Much of the theory associated with the red pill finds its basis on that forum, which later became known as the Manosphere. The three R’s of the Manosphere are Roissy, Rollo and Roosh. They were moderators of the SoSuaveForum and became widely regarded as the prime movers of the praxeology because of their extensive contribution to the members who took part.

With that said, the Red Pill is more about unlearning a set of pre-conditioned beliefs that cause you to behave in such a manner that contradicts your unrefined, authentic masculine nature and I shall discuss this more in depth in the subsequent chapters. I shall note also, before I dive in to the intricacies, that there is what is called in the Manosphere as the ‘5 Stages of Unplugging’. Therefore, if you are met with resistance and refusal, you have been warned. This is part of the process, you must accept the verity that when your strongly held beliefs that you have much attachment to are at stake, you are bound to oppose it.

The red pill essentially arms men with the tools they need to transcend the anti-masculinity via feminism that is prevalent today in our culture. It is a composite of improving and prioritising yourself and your state of affairs as well as leveraging your sexual strategy, and capitalising on the revolt that is transforming society. The opposing counter-part of the red pill is the blue pill, which refers to the rivalry of men who are still conforming to the feminine imperative. These men are much like ordinary men, except the difference is that they express their opposition out of a lack of knowledge of the complexities of the dynamic. Many men know better than that, but most men don’t. The red pill is the strongest and most pertinent opposition to feminism that is prevalent today, it is much like the messenger that delivers men out of their preconceived beliefs and awakens them to a set of dynamics that they were previously ignorant and unaware of.

Needless to say, experience will be your messenger even if you disregard everything you read in this essay. Experience is the wisest teacher of all, it teaches you cruel truths that you will only fathom when you encounter it in actual life. The harsh truth is the toughest pill to swallow, internalising it is a long and bitter road, but experiencing it first hand will accelerate your mastery over it tenfold, especially if you are also diligently studying the appropriate red pill material.

Elaborating on all the derivations would make for an excessive preface, so I shall refute from explaining further presuming that many of you will have a basic foundation already in place, and dive straight into the core of this piece of writing. In closing, do not take everything as verbatim, I want you to inquire and become an onlooker of human nature. This is when it gets gripping because you need not believe in something that is evident in the real world, since you know its truthfulness. These dynamics are at play day and night, it is literally that apparent. You do not need to look out for it arduously, it is there for all to see. Except, everyone is blind to it because they have blue-tinted glasses that misrepresent the authentic and basic colours.

Your Soulmate is Fictional

Most men are of the belief that somewhere out there, there is that ‘one’ unicorn that will be awaiting them, someone who they will share their life with forever. This is much like Disney make-believe in real life, except people are convinced by it in the most serious way. They have been brought up in a culture of idealistic myths that for the most part, have been imbued upon them in their boyhood when their vulnerability is their thumbscrew. This is scarcely a practical way of orienting your life and too oftener than not, it makes you powerless and numb.

Let me break it to you, there is no ‘one’ or ‘soulmate’ waiting for you and if you, by some means have not realised by now, you have heard it here first. With the good comes the bad, and thus there are ample good ones and ample bad ones. If you are getting hung up on the notion that your supposed ‘soulmate’ has broken it off with you, I will make you a point of assurance, and tell you that she is just like all the other women out there, you exclusively put her up on a pedestal because of your discerned imaginary ideals of her and how you anticipate to be treated by her.

As the culture in the West grows more effeminate, this romanticised myth have become so prevalent and permeating that it has come to be comparable to a declaration of divinity or faith and furthermore, it has coalesced with myriad different dogmas of religion. When one is intoxicated of such a fallacy, this is known as ‘oneitis’. Oneitis is a detrimental mental helplessness and clinging that is the consequence of the uninterrupted circulation of the fallacy in our society. More alarming is the fact oneitis has come to be equated to having a wholesome relationship or matrimony with another.

Essentially, the soulmate myth deliberately damages your natural predispositions and as a result, you struggle to see clearly. The notion, furthermore, that men have an unprocessed ability for security and provider-ship in a monogamous relationship is indisputably not induced under the psychological vulnerability and debilitation of oneitis. This is a sharp paradox; they acknowledge your power, and then take it away from you through the psychological impotence that you become a victim of as a result of corrupt dogma and blind faith.

Men are fundamentally advancing the feminisation of culture, adhering to ideals proposed by women, and happily conforming to them like the utter chumps that they are. When the woman knows for certain that she is your only source of sexual fulfilment and closeness, you have handed her all the power she wished for from you.

Recognise, your capacity does not stem from authority, status, or material wealth. It stems from acknowledging how much jurisdiction you have in your life. Cultivate an understanding of the underlying misconception that permeates our culture and grasp that there are good and bad ones, but never simply ‘one’.

The Fundamental Rule of Relationships

” In any relationship, the person with the most power is the one who needs the other the least.”

Rollo Tomassi

You can disregard this axiom, needless to say, the dynamic is still in play if you are in an intersexual relationship with another. You are adequate for her, and you measure up to a myriad of basis, and her to yours. A relationship would not commence with her if this were not the case. Whether you are conscious of it or not, you unconsciously and intrinsically assess your women, you utilise contrast and juxtapose every aspect about her, mainly in the opening desirability to resolve whether she is sufficient for your affinity.

A relationship in good condition transfers control as requisite and yearning entail. If your relationship is the product of deranged deception of jurisdiction, you may already know it is detrimental to your mental well-being. This occurs for various reasons, there are two courses of action. The compliant partner allows the manipulation to transpire, or the dominant partner starts the manipulation. Anyhow, the one who requires the other less has more control, and the principle still holds its pertinence. This is so prevalent in our society today that it is hardly unnoticeable, especially if you are a student of human nature.

The fundamental rule is observed in different light, assaulted women crawl back to their disparaging husbands or boyfriends, and thirsty chumps undermine their identity and disregard their resources to conform to their women’s lack of confidence. In other words, alpha seed, beta need. The purpose of this rule, consequently, is to awaken men to the reality that they are the prize to be won over and not the other way around. Most young men are already susceptible to depreciate themselves and glorify women to a large extent, they make it their objective in life and this is tremendously sterile and deplorable.

Invariably, agreement and understanding are part of any relationship, but it is crucial for you to recognise that when acquiescence becomes the consequence of dishonesty and duplicity, you should have utmost self-assurance and dignity to be inflexible in such a state of affairs. Surrendering your argument with your girlfriend is not dishonourable. What is reprehensible, though, is when you frequently make concessions merely to avoid upset because she will refuse to give you intimacy if you assert your frame. This is what is coined in the Manosphere as the ‘fitness-test’ or ‘shit-test’. It is a power play that determines a number of character variables to gauge your strength and nerve.

Women’s intimacy is never worth your agreement, your value to her is directly proportionate to your willingness to compromise her intimacy. By compromising, you denigrate your merit. In fact, women do not want you to comply with their conditions as they would more readily bow to a self-directed man. However, they would rather you get that and act accordingly instead of them having to utter it to you as if you’re her child. If they need to tell you how to conduct yourself, it implies that you are not that by your immediate nature and that is anti-seductive.

A man who is unwilling to comply, out of his sufficient understanding and confidence, to the ruthless nature of the feminine, is the man who is to be chased after. Such men, today, are a dying breed and represent the minute minority of the male population. This is the alpha male that women fall to their knees over, for he has the courage and dignity to confidently walk away with the knowledge that better prospects await him. This man understands that a relationship with a woman, that is based upon abiding to her deceit, is a destructive and futile connection to pursue. Moreover, his sexual appeal generates for him a vast range of female prospects who will be more than willing to share him with additional women.

Understand: you must get your act together and recognise that you always had the answers. However, when you keep looking for more answers, you forget where you stand and never act, out of terror. This is paralyses, you should re-evaluate limiting self-beliefs that weigh you down because they have no utility whatsoever. Prioritise and incrementally better yourself, do not go out of your way to assist others before you have gained mastery over yourself.

Real Desire Cannot Be Consulted

Desire cannot possibly be worked out or arranged with a woman. Most men are capable of killing genuine desire in less than 6 months, and in innumerable cases, in less than a few weeks or months. Except, they misinterpret the state of affairs because they are unknowledgeable of the underpinnings. Familiarity breeds contempt. It kills your ‘game’ at full tilt, you do not know how to keep your distance and the thrill that pervaded your initial attraction is wiped out. At this point, further negotiation of genuine desire is insufficient in her eyes, and this is hardly realised among men.

Regardless of what terms you confer to your girlfriend, her genuine desire for you is not present and this cannot possibly be arranged or negotiated in any possible method. Any attempt to do so is confirming to her that you are not sufficient to put her to the side and move on. Negotiated desire breeds obligation, you or your girlfriend may comply with your terms, not out of genuine intrigue, but out of duty you have imposed on her. This may not be apparent to you out of ignorance, but men with a rather scarce mentality have an all-too-common tendency of negotiating desire as the pain associated with letting her go is more acute than sustaining an inadequate and poor relationship.

Genuine desire is never conferred on a woman, it is a feeling she gets that arises on its accord, spontaneously. Having understood that, your overt attempt at reconditioning said desire will invariably never induce genuine desire, merely obligation, as it is utterly impractical to talk a woman into feeling that way following your excessive familiarity and consolation. The genuine intrigue she felt for you was grounded in a culmination of undisclosed ingredients.

Aim for genuine desire in your affairs, this is what makes the game worth playing. Thus, when you know you will not pursue women who do not want to please you, you are in better posture to find a suitable prospect that will be fixated out of genuine desire and not obligation. The only way to stimulate genuine desire is through covert means, never through words. If she is unaware of your effort to rouse it, she will assume that she is feeling this way out of authentic desire and not out of commitment.

Closing Note

To avoid making this essay lengthy, I have split it in several parts for the reader’s perusal and understanding. This will not bore you (the reader) with an overabundance of writing at once. If you have made it to the end, I am honoured to have written for you and will be pleased to have you back.

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Machiavellian Axioms (Part 1)

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“There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.”

Machiavelli Niccolo, The Prince

Preface

A collection of Machiavellian reflections in the form of axioms that I have put together for contemplation and comprehension. The axioms follow no particular order.

Axioms

1. As knowledge grows, so does your irritability. The shrewd are habitually the least forbearing.

2. You will never take back what you said, but you always have time to consider it before you utter it.

3. The talkative are the easiest to deceive and persuade.

4. Use insignificant social events to practice cunning for significant ones.

5. Do not exhibit your disdain for someone, disguise it in courtesy.

6. Speak courteously of your enemies, because that is to be commended, and the best vengeance to triumph over jealousy is excellence and aptitude.

7. Punish your foes with your success and let that be their malice.

8. One’s good fortune is another’s adversity.

9. Courage towards your adversaries is admirable. Do not fight to win, then, fight to triumph in a valiant fashion.

10. A self-aware person points out his flaws with consideration, a discreet person triumphs and conquers everything, even superstars.

11. Succeed a dozen times over, but be vigilant not to fall flat once.

12. Tell them what they want to hear and dissimulate what you have done.

13. Spite will detail every inferior thing and not one virtuous one.

14. Good sense is shielded on every occasion. There is much verity in this keen contradiction: the half is larger and more substantial than the whole.

15. Know how to cast a spell over people, for it is more beneficial than goods.

16. If your adversary has nothing to lose, do not oppose him in war.

17. Familiarity brings about scorn, shun away from intimacy when dealing with people.

18. Familiarity is indecency in disguise, the sacred commands respect.

19. There is much prowess in restraint and reservedness, for where there is intricacy and depth, there is confidential profundity.

20. Fools are easy to convince, and if you are easily persuaded, you’re utterly foolish. Fools persist harder in their folly when they are in the wrong.

21. Never argue with a fool, instead disregard them and steer clear.

22. An enemy has much to prove, thus it is more prudent to request a favour from your enemy than your friend.

23. The more you say, the more ordinary you seem to be and the less in power.

24. Have an air of natural nonchalance in everything that you do and maintain a certain stand-offishness among people to shun away from closeness.

25. Do not give people the opportunity to discern what you did or about to do.

26. While fools talk about what they did, the prudent pretend what they have done.

27. Utilise bluff to throwing people off your path.

28. Contradictory or artificial objects of desire are means of deluding people from reading your original motives.

29. Never disclose your motives in words, stir confusion through false sincerity.

30. Honesty is an edgeless device, it is probable to displease more than please.

31. Resist the temptation to react in anger, for you will give people the reaction they hoped for.

32. Discernment of reality is more substantial for people than actual reality. Power is a game of appearances, what seems to be is more real than what is. Leverage this verity to your choosing.

33. Do not become preoccupied with trivial matters, this is a deficiency in greatness.

34. Do not tether your repute on one distinct shot, the cons outweighs the pros.

35. Pass over disliked tasks to other people, and you take care of what is sought-after.

36. Do not be the messenger of bad news. Let everything that is good come immediately, and everything unpleasant allusively.

37. Know how to give commendation, it is a method of prudently publicising your good manners to the ideal people in your vicinity.

38. Fill the void. Find a person’s insufficiency and utilise it to your benefit. It is the most successful kind of constraint and force.

39. Identify solace in everything you do. There is freedom and condolence in adversity, remember this.

40. Too much courtesy is a kind of duplicity, do not be delighted by it. They utilise meaningless words as their way of bestowing acclaim.

41. Promising nothing and everything is much the same. Promises are a form of ambush that only fools will fall for.

42. Real politeness is a duty but pretentious courtesy mainly in immoderate doses, is a form of deceit. This is an utterance of reliance, not of civility.

43. People yield to their success, and not to other people. They commend you in anticipation and not in gratitude, because your significance to them is how well they can utilise you for their merit.

44. Do not take things too solemnly, expressly if they do not concern you or are consequential. Remain cool in times of disruption, steady and stoic.

45. The prudent find virtue in everyone, because they know the price of doing things competently. Learn to acknowledge and value others.

46. If you can unfasten and set aside what doesn’t matter, you have plenty to be grateful for.

47. Fools are of great merit to the wise but of no good to the practical. To the wise, they serve as lessons and warnings.

48. Know when to intercede with your excellence, for this is the way to good fortune.

49. Leave people discontented and wanting more when recompensing them, for they will be left craving more in anticipation.

50. Anxiety and fear arise following purpose’s demise.

Further Reading

  1. Baltasar Gracian: The Art of Wordly Wisdom
  2. Robert Greene: 48 Laws of Power
  3. Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince