Skip to main content

The art of deception,... and fish

 Now this is an extremely risky move. You've been warned. 

Say that you have an ace in the hole; by which I mean that you have something big. Since I don't know the first thing about cards, I'm gonna switch over to fish analogies. 


Imagine that you have a big fish; like, really big. So big a fish that people don't believe that such a big fish exists. Now you have to get through something that requires you to have a whale. 


So what you do is, you put your fish flat on the table. The whole thing. And in the awe of the parties involved, claim that you have a whale. 


What you've done here is prime leverage. You have something unbelievable actually with you; and you show it to the people. Now they have no choice but to believe the unreal. They've crossed the threshold. Now you use this inertia to push them into an even higher state of belief. But this time, you make them believe in something that actually doesn't exist. 


You're literally taking people to the third floor of a two story building, and then telling them that a fourth floor exists. The people in the impossible third floor have no way of confirming the existence of an impossible fourth floor.


And now comes the important question: why all this? 

Well, what we went through right now is an important manipulation technique. So important that its branches extend from street magic to international politics. The whole act revolves around a loophole in our perception. If you have to make people believe in something impossible, you don't have to do the ultimate impossible; instead, you can show them something lesser, but still perceived not possible, and just extrapolate the graph.


You should be afraid of my ability to make you believe that there is a whole mountain, wherein there ever was only half a mountain. Because these days, almost every "sensational" story, every historic announcement, and every groundbreaking revelation is like an atom. An ambiguous cloud of electrons revolving around, and anchored by, a tiny nucleus of actuality somewhere deep within.


You see all storms violent, but the eye of every tempest is always calm. Hence, you have been lied to by every source ever. Considering the dire seriousness of the situation, I encourage you to go back and find out where the truth in this article ended and the vapourware began. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

the high seas

We are the stories that we tell  our children “Mom, why did you tell him that dad’s dead?” She knew that this day would come soon enough. The girl's in her teen years; you can’t shut her up with the story of her dad being lost at sea. Though, quite frankly, that’s the closest thing to the truth. “Don’t tell me that you still believe that he’ll be back all these years later, do you?” “It’s not about what I believe. You never lost hope; and now I’m thinking you’re…” “Not now” , she snapped. She didn’t mean to, but she did. A small price to pay for living in a house with an antsy teen. “We’ll discuss this later.” She said, more calmly. She knew that this pot was boiling for quite some time now; they both have been feeling the heat. It’s up to her to make sure that it doesn’t boil over. She made a mental note to do something about this situation. But going there was bad enough for her herself, that she did not linger on what exactly is that she’s gonna do about it. ‘Time will pass’, ...
Post a Comment
Read more

to hide from a hiccup

 “It is not you that is the problem; neither is it drowning. You drowning; now that, is the problem.” As I was coming out of the big black building, texting an old colleague of mine, I set a man on fire. I know that you're thinking all the wrong things now. Stop. It's not about that. None of it matters. Just go with it; take it easy. It's just a man; he’s having a luminous day. So I look at this burning man, you see, and feel all these feelings. What do you mean? It's a human person, on fire! Don't you feel any sort of way you monster? Well, I do. I'm disturbed looking at this situation. I'm devastated. I don't feel like going home. So I say right there on the sidewalk. Since feeling this intense grief can't be good, I try thinking of something else. Something good; happy. There was this fantastic piece on youtube about the rotary vane engine and it's mechanical superiority over a reciprocating piston engine. But the screams just cut through like...
Post a Comment
Read more

UpsideDownCake

  Jo was the bottle of Pepsi, and the sad, almost empty bottle on the bedstand was Jo.    Jo Manson woke up to the blue and red logo of the Pepsi company, with the black liquid serving a good backdrop to paste Jo's eyes on the logo and nothing else. But that red, blue, and white ball has been seared permanently into the brains of every human and fish alive, that one might even question the point of existence of the black liquid at this point. But one does not. "Stop staring", Jo snapped at the Pepsi bottle, and came to a more vertical state of being. Jo was made of said black liquid at this point, from having too much (which is the exact right amount) of it. Jo was the bottle of Pepsi, and the sad, almost empty bottle on the bed stand was Jo. Once at the sink, Jo opened own mouth, and fizzed, like any good can of soda. Jo looked at the toilet in the far corner with five stacked toilet seats. Jo needed a toilet seat, and bought exactly one toilet seat. The tiny trackers (w...
Post a Comment
Read more