{"id":36890,"date":"2018-08-21T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T14:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36890"},"modified":"2018-08-21T09:42:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T14:42:32","slug":"how-to-beat-a-manipulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36890","title":{"rendered":"How To Beat A Manipulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/08\/17\/how-to-beat-a-manipulator\/\">How To Beat A Manipulator<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-5096\" class=\"post-5096 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-caitlin-johnstone tag-manipulation tag-media tag-msm tag-oligarchy tag-plutocracy tag-sociopaths\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-17-at-2.04.07-PM.jpg?189db0&amp;189db0\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-17-at-2.04.07-PM.jpg 992w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-17-at-2.04.07-PM-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-17-at-2.04.07-PM-768x483.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"992\" height=\"624\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em>I\u2019ve been busy working through some of my own stuff lately, while marveling\u00a0at how closely my personal journey has been mirrored in the larger world. I wrote out the following as a personal exercise while meditating on all the similarities between abusive personal relationships with manipulators and our relationship as a species with <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/twelve-tips-for-making-sense-of-the-world-43348077cf80\">the sociopathic plutocrats who rule us<\/a>. I got a lot out of writing it, and it came out relatively readable, so I figured I\u2019d publish it as-is in case anyone else finds it useful too. Here ya go!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Humans are hackable. Ask any conman. Our desire to think we have control over our lives often hides this from ourselves, but most of us are highly suggestible and hypnotizable. If you think you\u2019re not, you\u2019re in more danger of being hacked than someone who has humbled themselves enough to see how this works in them.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no need to be ashamed of being conned. Realizing that you\u2019ve been, or are being, conned will naturally bring up feelings of embarrassment, but it\u2019s never your fault that someone\u2019s taken you for a ride. Get clear: conning someone is the crime; being conned is being a victim of that crime. That\u2019s how the law sees it in fraud cases. Manipulators would love you to think that it\u2019s your fault for allowing yourself to be manipulated, but that\u2019s just another manipulation isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>Manipulators use one of our most astounding, useful, and beautiful human characteristics when they con us \u2014 empathy. Our innately trusting nature is the reason why we\u2019ve been able to collaborate on large scales to create and innovate in extraordinary ways unseen anywhere else in the animal kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How To Beat A Manipulator I\u2019ve been busy working through some of my own stuff lately, while marveling\u00a0at how closely my personal journey has been mirrored in the larger world. I wrote out the following as a personal exercise while meditating on all the similarities between abusive personal relationships with manipulators and our relationship as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17039,5179,6236,21340,950,927,2238,4882,815],"class_list":["post-36890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-collaboration","tag-con","tag-empathy","tag-fraud","tag-manipulation","tag-plutocracy","tag-tribe","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36891,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36890\/revisions\/36891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}