RE: Cults
February 18, 2021 at 8:13 am
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2021 at 8:17 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 18, 2021 at 1:28 am)no one Wrote: Mind tricks work on those with tiny, weak, minds.
When you let others do your thinking for you, principles are conveniently obscured.
A more competent mind more competently lies to it's owner. Conditioning works on every swinging richard, not just the dumb ones.
Smart ones may have a unique blindspot in that their perimeter defense is taken to be so effective that anything inside of it is automatically assumed -not- to be the loony conditioned shit. That's where the thin end of the wedge comes in.
If I were intentionally looking to con someone, I'd pick a person that believed that only weak minds could be conditioned, and that they didn't have one of those weak minds. In fact I'd tell them that, in many other words and ways, all the time. Laundering my efforts. A wary mark, otoh, is too much work. Frankly, a cult has an existential requirement that swirls around the cultists ability to close their mind off. To be strong in the way that the comment above would imply had some benefit to preventing conditioning. It doesn't..it's how you hold conditioned states - and you don't want someone so empty headed that the next con can come along, undo all your work, and profit from it.
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