“The mirror reflects reality, but it is also the perfect tool for deception: When you mirror your enemies, doing exactly as they do, they cannot figure out your strategy"
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“The power of verbal argument is extremely limited and often accomplishes the opposite of what is intended.”
“As Baltasar Gracián remarks, the truth is generally seen, rarely heard. Quite simply you teach others a lesson by giving them a taste of their own medicine. In the Moral Effect you mirror what other people have done to you and do so in a way that makes them realize you are doing to them exactly what they did to you. You make them feel that their behavior has been unpleasant as opposed to hearing you complain and whine about it, which only gets their defenses up. And as they feel the result of their actions mirrored back at them, they realize in the profounder sense how they hurt or punish others with their unsocial behavior.” SOURCED
Con artists and the malevolent will manipulate your reality for their own gain, by becoming keenly aware of how you’re going to be deceived you lessen the chances of “misfortune”.
“The Hallucinatory Effect comes from creating a perfect copy of an object, a place, a person. This copy acts as a kind of dummy — people take it for the real thing, because it has the physical appearance of the real thing. This is a preeminent technique of con artists who strategically mimic the real world to deceive you.”
-BurnBack