Those Prey To Praise
Reconsidering the salesmen in your life.
Praise isn’t a form of connection.
Yet it is a not uncommon way that people will try to wedge their way into the lives of others.
Sales psychology has to do with this. In sales, you want to rehearse your presence in the mind of the other person. The salesperson will seek to “overcome objections” in the mind of their target. Toward this end, they will use sales “training”, which is basically different strategies of reframing in the mind of the other person what it is that they are experiencing so that they will be more at ease with the other person having a seat of influence in their private inner world.
Praise works devilishly well.
Clever salespeople figure out that most people are ground down and uncertain of themselves at some level. The most devilish salesmen understand childhood trauma and that their targets were either buttered up with praise or broken down by criticism once long ago.
The average older person simply has an aversion to salesmen - usually because they were taught Death Of A Salesman in middle school or high school, wherein a salesman is a failure in life and crashes out for a boring 90 minutes of self-pity.
The same cannot be said about the younger generations. Pro-capitalism propaganda has done away with a lot of the previous anti-sales propaganda of the left.
Salespeople operate as predators. Their target is capital. The possessor of the capital is the target. The easiest targets are the ones susceptible to the sales training. It is often the job of a finder to feed targets to the “closer”.
All is fair in debate.
All is fair in sales.
All is fair in public call-ins.
All is fair in X replies.
All is fair in repetitive livestream formats.
All is fair in art.
All is fair when a person isn’t RTRing.
Who RTR’s? Umm…I’m like the only person publicly lmao. I know it makes me look like a complete nutter. But more and more people will get it and stick with it.
Salesmen don’t “shut it off” when they leave work. They keep it going. They work sales techniques on their women. They work to convince the woman of her vanity. When she is sick with her own vanity, the salesman can better control her. In return, she feeds the man’s need for status, allowing her to control him in return. Mutual button-pressing.
Salesmen live with guilty consciences.
Under Christianity, salesmen would triangulate their private guilt onto Jesus Christ, who basically told them to not be such greedy snakes.
Under no-rules Zion, what we live under now, salesmen don’t have overt, religious gods. They have their status to worship. They don’t even fashion anything internal after Jesus Christ. There’s simply a void there, that they create (oftentimes through mind-smashing drugs), and then their personal demons slip in.
The checks of the past are gone.
When you see a salesman target someone in their personal life, watch how they work that person. If ever you see someone working someone else, regardless of the sales angle of this article, you can be assured they will work you the same way if you let them.
As an experiment, play coy with someone who is predatorial.
Watch all their tricks kick in.
Play dead. Watch how they circle the body to check for signs of life.
This will teach you a lot about predators. Salespeople have a lot to do with selling you junk nonsense you don’t need. They’ll work very hard to convince themselves that you need the whatever. This is self-deception. This is how sayanim embed deep into hosts and then at the appointed hour, detonate and take down as much of the target down with them as possible.
A person who never had their purposeful efforts toward improvement highlighted to them by their parents in childhood will glom onto the cultural/popular equivalent of this: praise. These kinds of people will be desperate for praise. They will remember tiny shreds of praise many years after the fact. They are crushed down in much the same way that love addicts who develop the rescue fantasy are crushed down. One taste of a woman and these men’s brains scramble.
The salesman knows this and will offer pseudo-empathy and pseudo-connection. If you do enough self-knowledge, you will be able to spot this because you will eventually notice how the salesman never offers up anything vulnerable of himself. People who don’t offer you vulnerability, directly and privately, are not your friends. People who deliberately leave this out are working you. Remember, there’s a damn good chance they don’t have Jesus. So who do they serve? A man who won’t earnestly and honestly tell you who or what he serves is a man who is up to no good.
A little bit of praise here and there every once in a while seems harmless. In reality, it’s bait.
If you’re a predator, you always let the fish come take a nibble before you yank on the hook.
This is part of why I have been speaking about “managing others” so often lately on Telegram and behind my Locals paywall.
In a sense, I am attempting to broach a new level of consciousness about the degree to which people, whether wittingly or not, tend to overtake the agency of others in order to manage difficult internal states. It runs deep! Maybe “broach a new level of consciousness” is not the best way to put it but there is something to the line.
If someone wants something from you, let them say it clearly and plainly. And even then, their statement will be dependent on their level of scrutiny. If you have more self-knowledge than them, it may not sus out completely. But at least everyone is on even footing.
Communication that isn’t RTRing is utterly dripping with manipulation (whether passive or aggressive), unconsciousness, and even madness.
I say remember this the next time you’re praised. You will see that “praise” has everything to do with the other person and virtually nothing to do with you. Praise isn’t RTRing. It’s bait.
I have learned to never take the bait.
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