Plain-english demystification of powerful mental manipulation tactics and some practical antidotes to counteract them through meditation.https://twitter.com/immeasurablemat/status/958538626912092160 …
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Replying to @ur_immeasurable
Worth noting that this stuff happens, nearly everywhere, even without any explicit ‘manipulation tactics’ - just properties which are co-emergent with ‘spheres of human interaction’. [Closely related to process-relational thought of Whithead, Sloterdijk, neo-ritual theory too.]
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Replying to @misen__
I’d say your right to an extent, but whether or not tactics like this are used with conscious intent, the result of using them ascribes intentionality to their agents.
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Replying to @ur_immeasurable
Personally, I have no intention to blame unintentional agents - it's just how the world works - but I can see how one might do that. Given the fact that these tactics may be applied with intent, do you agree that similar dynamics also emerge as natural features of systems, too?
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Replying to @misen__
If you happen to have an ideologically pathologized mind and consider yourself (or act as if you are) a victim, I’d say your first move would be to use blame to prosecute said systems or agents. That’s precisely what I did, and was trained to do in uni.
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Sure, that happens a lot. I'm sorry that you feel you were trained to 'blame' systems, and/or apply agency to a system perhaps. But this, as you know, is very common. Just one of many cognitive biases we humans fall into all the time.
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