CONMEN
Pay Up, Winners!
Ok, quick update: democratic totalitarianism is here. We are heading toward untold human slavery, deformity, and despair.
If you are a loser like everyone else, you are probably hanging out in front of a screen all day trying to numb your brains with noise, pictures, and porn.
This is all you got left, and all you will ever need. (If you still work, you are stupid. You are being enslaved, man!) Everyone is like you now, so don’t even try to go out and make real friends. They are all psychotic now and want to hang out with a like button.
Unfortunately, noise, picture, and porn are also increasingly becoming an unsafe space: The fake winners are lurking in the networks, ready to scam seduce you.
We’ve explored many of the mind controllers that roam the Human Farm, but none is as captivating as the conman. Do not lay your eyes on him…
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The conmen are the psychics, mortgage brokers, pickup artists, divorce lawyers, and “cancer victims” on the Human Farm.
Conmen is short for “confidence men,” and it is exactly that: confident men (or women, but few) who exude poise and fake trust. They have an insatiable drive for social status, success, and survival—although they are rarely stable and, once their scheme is inevitably exposed and their false persona laid bare, they must move places but will always move on to the next scam or perish.
They can’t help it.
Toward that drive to change places often and deceit new and newer strangers, they mastered the dark arts of selling, credit magic, pick-up spells, and persuasion.
The confidence men are always also impostors of sorts, with over-the-top job titles, power words, and sales pitches that border on the fantastic. What they are really selling, however, is not a product or service but really is their own super-fantastic ego.
The conman is a self-made man on the lookout for products or services he can attach his super-fantastic ego to, and most victims will fall for it and admit that they did not purchase in his scheme for the product but for his singular over-the-top, charming personality.
Thence, the source of the conman’s extraordinary gift is not immorally concocted poneros [evil], as his detractors often want us to believe, but pure and undistilled charisma—the gift of grace.
Do not love a conman.
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Con artists are a real American phenomenon, I think, thanks to the American entrepreneurial spirit. The first one I ever came across was Tony Robbins, back in the day when telemarketing and seminars were all the rage. This guy was super charismatic and larger-than-life—literally, he suffered from gigantism and had huge hands and a caveman chin. He stood out from the masses, even for a Croatian guy in Hollywood. He never attended college, so talked whatever he felt was necessary to manipulate the people around him. I remember, his whole deal was convincing people they could be just as charismatic and larger-than-life as he was. That was his entire pitch. He wasn’t selling a product or some fancy gadget—just himself. And books about himself. And honestly, that’s probably the telltale sign of a con artist. They’re totally full of themselves and somehow manage to sell you a $299 seminar to learn how to be like them. Andrew Tate. Dan Bilzerian. Go figure.
We traveled in Okinawa last year and were shocked. The locals were all wearing face masks. Three years after the pandemic. The tourists weren't wearing masks, but that didn't seem to impress the locals at all. Japanese can be very stubborn.