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jace cavacini
@dysamoria.com

Humans AREN’T fundamentally bad! We’re fundamentally VULNERABLE to allowing toxic culture to form, creating & elevating pathological members; letting them trick us into granting them more than their fair share. We’re vulnerable to the manipulation of those who behave in ways the rest of us WOULDN’T.

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jace cavacini
@dysamoria.com

Because our culture isn’t founded in critical thinking, compassion, and awareness of pathology, we’re VULNERABLE to being convinced (via varying amounts of clever rationalizations & emotional manipulations) to not only elevate pathological people, but to ADOPT their irrational ideologies.

jace cavacini
@dysamoria.com

We’re vulnerable to pathological people’s behavior because, as NORMAL people, we struggle to conceive of their motivations, and therefore struggle to recognize the danger. A thrashing, screaming beast is easy to fear. A polite, smiling narcissist, sociopath, etc., is a thing we must LEARN to fear.

jace cavacini
@dysamoria.com

Failing to recognize the masked threat, we’re VULNERABLE to adopting their “reasonable concerns” about those they use as scapegoats. We’re vulnerable to their veils of politeness & decorum… though we’ll flex on niceness should they be crude toward someone about whom we feel discomfort.

jace cavacini
@dysamoria.com

That this works on people doesn’t make us evil, stupid, or cruel. It means we’re HUMAN BEINGS. If we’re not taught (or haven’t acquired) complex human behavioral awareness, critical thinking skills, and a will toward self-confrontation, we can fall for emotional manipulation. It’s human frailty.