yeah, manson was quite interesting because he was kinda just playing with people's minds. still a patent psychopath but not so purposeful. but he is one of a bunch that appeared in the 20th century, another one is Aleister Crowley
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yeah, he was doing it for the lulz, that's what i mean.
he was still dangerous - but also a warning to anyone paying attention that humans are vulnerable to manipulation and the problem is widespread. almost no real effort has been made to handle this problem, the cults and mass manipulation have got even more aggressive and smarter since then, the power that it grants has only made them more utilized and this has been largely left unchecked. researchers in the field are ignored and there is almost nobody who can even find help. for the most part you are on your own to figure it out, if you are lucky enough to even have the thought occur about what the nature of it is.
when i had this stuff done to me really brazenly by a shitcoin founder back in late 2021 it took 3 months for the machinery to tick over before i sat down and started researching it. the very day he "love bombed" me i started to have this thought "i need to look into cult manipulation techniques" and what got me to move on it was getting fired after i refused to go to their seasonal in-person programming session, because i didn't want to get jabbed so i could fly to Porto for it.
A fellow man of integrity I see 🤝
haha. well, something else that was related to this was i stumbled on a source for some of the highest quality methamphetamine i have ever used in my life, and accidentally dosed a bit high on my first time using this new stuff.
this led to an experience of a hallucination of some kind of intangible mind-creature thing, like a parasite that was feeding on and living on my psychic energy, with a particular character. i saw it face on, for a moment, and locked on it long enough to get a vivid image, then i blinked and it slithered away like a cockroach exposed to light.
this felt like some kind of a confrontation with the forces involved in psychological manipulation techniques and how they live rent free inside your mind, and since then the kinds of relationships that i had previously been constantly getting caught in ceased permanently, and my vigilance against it has been high ever since.
i've done a lot of psychedelics and amphetamines over the years. meth, in particular, has had some rather strange effects i've observed involving memories, for years every time i dosed i'd get flashes of dream recall of this one dream over and over again that recurred a lot in my childhood and even again later.
in the dream there is a scene a bit like the final scenes of The Labyrinth where i'm walking through this "dump" sort of place, full of these rusty old metal skulls and i'm like sure that under my feet somewhere i'm going to step on a trigger plate and have them close on me.
then there is another scene where i am floating on some kind of boat, at first it's like a ship, but it's adrift in a canal surrounded by mangroves. then it becomes a raft, and i'm looking around at the water, sure there is crocodiles in there who might attack me.
this dream sequence almost consistently popped into my mind in the first hour or two almost every time i dosed for most of my mid 20s.
the theme, if you don't quite get it, relates to the hidden triggers that people have that cause them to judge you unfairly, and a sense of being alone in this awareness of the dangers in the waters (emotions) of myself and people.
btw, back then, i wrote this little text, that explains psychological manipulation techniques, i encoded it into a set of 9, and all of them use a word to describe them, as a mnemonic, starting with the letter C:
https://gist.github.com/mleku/ebc69873963c0f1c74729bac8a577796