Are We More Susceptible To Hatred, Deceit, And Manipulation In Today's World?
Understanding The Plagues That Are Preventing Us From Seeing Clearly
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Are We More Susceptible To Hatred, Deceit, And Manipulation In Today's World?
Understanding The Plagues That Are Preventing Us From Seeing Clearly
I Often Wonder How We Have Fallen So Far.
We call Ourselves "Homosapiens" or "Wise Humans"...
Yet I so Rarely Find Wisdom in Today's World.
Around so many Cornes I See Anything "Except" Wisdom.
I See Hatred.
I See Manipulation
I See Deceit.
I Know Many Good Human Beings who are Spewing Hatred that would have been Impossible to Imagine Before.
I See Smart Individuals being Lied To Constantly...
Yet Completely Believing the Lies They Are Told.
These are People who are "Masters" of their Own Industries, Who are Being Lied to and are Being Manipulated "Within" their Own Industries...
Not Just People Who Are Uninformed.
Then I See them Act on these in Ways that are Mystifying in the Worst of Ways.
Verbally, Emotionally, and even Physically Attacking Innocent People...
Even toward Individuals Trying to Help..
Sometimes even Family who are Undeserving of Such Treatment.
Which begs the Question...
Are We More Susceptible to Hatred, Deceit, and Manipulation in Today's World?
The Answer is Yes.
The World Today "Has" Made Us Much More Susceptible to these.
There is No Doubt of this.
I Know because I See it Happen Frequently.
But...
If We are to Overcome these Susceptibilities...
We Must Understand "How" It Happens to Us.
How is it that Good People...
Smart People...
Who are Desperately Trying to be Decent Humans...
Become Twisted to Such Incredibly Different Ends?
It begins with Dis-Stress.
But Not Just the Occasional Dis-Stress.
It is Chronic and Extreme Dis-Stress that makes us Susceptible.
When we are in Dis-Stress, Certain Parts of Our Brains are Accessed Less Frequently "Because" Our Bodies Focus on Survival.
Things like High-Level Logical Evaluation and Finding Gaps in Positions are Not "Important" during Chronic Dis-Stress.
All that Matters is Continuing to Survive.
For as Long as We are "In" Dis-Stress...
We are Susceptible.
Which, in Today's World Means that Over 80% of the Workforce is Susceptible...
Because Over 80% of the Workforce is in Burnout...
Which is an Extreme Form of Chronic Dis-Stress.
But, this is Not the Only Challenge We Face.
We Also Struggle with what is Known as the Frequency Bias.
This is a Psychological Flaw that We have, as Humans, to believe more often what We "See" More Of...
Regardless of whether it is True or Not.
We Simply Begin to "Believe" it is "True" because of How Frequent We See It.
When this is Mixed with Chronic Dis-Stress...
It is a Recipe to be Susceptible to All Sorts of Problems.
This Particular Problem "Is" a Gigantic Issue for Us because Nearly "Every" Source of Information We Typically Look At "Uses" Frequency.
The News will Report on the Same Story Multiple Times in the Same Day, and often within the Same Week and Sometimes Month.
It May Only Be "One" Story...
But We "Heart" it So Often that We Begin to "Believe" it is Significantly Bigger and/or Worse than it is in Reality.
Social Media is also Designed to "Curate" a Feed of What We Look at Most Frequently...
As is today's AI...
Which Means that these are Actually "Playing Into" Our Frequency Bias on Purpose.
This is also a Tactic that is Used "Against" Us.
A Form of Propaganda Tactic Purposefully Designed to Alter Our Beliefs on Topics.
So Much of "How" We Receive Our Information Works Through Frequency.
It Creates a Delusional Perception of Reality.
Yet, we can Go Further.
When We Lack the Ability to Access of Our Full Mental Capacities...
We are Far More Likely to Rely on Emotional Content...
Regardless of the Truth of that Emotional Content.
I See People and Organizations "Constantly" Play with Our Emotions to Push Us to Do Whatever they Want or Need Us to Do.
In Business, this is Called "Marketing".
In Politics, this is Called "Campaigning".
In Religion, including Extremism, this is Called "Proseletizing" and "Evangelizing".
I also see this Constantly Mixed with Addiction Tactics, both Emotional and Physical, to Drive Us into a Frenzy Even Further.
Our Own Emotions become Weaponized Against Us.
This is then Furthered to Push us to "Act" with Our Emotions...
Which if You've Ever Seen (or Been) Someone Who Acts on their Anger "Without" Thinking It Through...
Can End Disasterously.
But this is Not All we Must Worry About Either.
We Live in a World Where Most People Do Not have Any Strong Sense of Identities...
And Often the Few Identities they "Do" Hold Strongly...
Are Supported on a Loose Base which can be Fractured in an Instant...
Leaving People Constantly Feeling Like they are Lost.
In my work with Clients, I help them Understand 10 Categories of Identities...
Most of which will have Multiple Indentities Within Each Category when we Fully Understand Them...
But Most Individuals Start Off Only Know a Couple of Identies Total, with Most of their Categories with Question Marks.
Yet, as Humans, We Desire to have a Strong Sense of Identity...
Which can Be Used Against Us by Anyone Who Chooses to "Give" Us an Identity.
I have Seen People "Quickly" Grab Identities to have a Sense of "Self"...
But the Identities they Grabbed ended Up Being Extremely Detrimental to Them.
Not All Identities that are Available to Us are Positive...
Yet, Every Identity is Made to "Appear" Positive.
Many People have Done Atrocious Things throughout History, even up to Today, in the Name of an Identity that they Did Not Fully Understand Until it was Too Late.
This also ties very closely with Another Susceptibility We Have...
Loneliness.
We live in a World Today that has been in a Loneliness Epidemic for Some Time.
But, as Humans, We Seek to be a "Part" of a Group that is Larger than Us.
We Abhor Loneliness...
And Within Our Loneliness...
We Become Susceptible to Anyone Who "Promises" to End Our Loneliness.
By Making Us Feel Like We Are a "Part" of Some Group...
We Can Become Manipulated Into Believing that "Other" Groups are "Less Than"...
Which can Quickly become Dehumanization.
When We Look at Today's World...
There are So Many Factors that are Against Us...
Which Make Us All Incredibly Susceptible to Hatred, Deceit, and Manipulation.
We Begin to See "Enemies" Where There Are None.
We See A Hostile World that Is Trying to Destroy Us, the Places and Groups We Belong To, and the Identities We Grasp.
But Most Importantly...
If You "Believe" That You Are "Above" The Manipulation...
The Reality is that Your Ego and Hubris actually Make You "More" Blind and Susceptible to Manipulation...
Which So Many People are So Incredibly Sure of Themselves...
When the Reality of Today's World is that there are Far More Questions than Answers.
No One is Above This Susceptibility to Manipulation.
I'm Surely Not, and Neither Are You.
Which Means We Must Tread Carefully...
Especially if We Want to Create a "Truly" Better World.
Becoming Wary of Our Own Susceptibilities Allows to Better Find the Truth...
And See When We are being Manipulated...
Even by Those We Trust.
This Does Not Mean that We Cannot Trust Anyone...
Good People Do Exist in the World...
But it is a Call to Pay Attention to How Everyone is Trying to Interact with You.
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Now, if we Know we are Susceptible to these things…
We Must Learn how to Overcome Our Susceptibilities.
This is Important to Learn.
If We Learn to See Clearly…
The World becomes a Very Different Place.
Not Perfect…
We Still have a “Lot” of Work to Do to Improve the World…
But “We” Must See Clearly to Accomplish that.
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