Manipulative Methods
If the first thing you let people know about you is that you are a enamored of Robert Green’s 48 Laws of Power as your philosophy of life, what you are really telling me is that you are:
1. A jerk concerned with playing people more than living a good life .
2. Not even implementing those laws properly.
Whether it is books like this or magic or the combination of the two influencing “tech” is like a weapon. Its good to have on hand and know how to use for the RARE occasions you need it, but if you go around using it all the time for everything, you are actually cutting yourself off from the authentic experience of connecting with people.
When you do use it, you don’t TELL people about it, or it loses all its mojo. If I KNOW that you are a manipulative jerk I am on guard for it.
Sadly these kinds of things have become a sort of lifestyle choice for people, which ironically , usually makes the methods completely ineffective.