By Thorsten J. Pattberg for the Saker Blog
Deceit is the giving of false advice. The false advice is concocted to put a rival at a disadvantage and send him down a perilous path of defeat and humiliation. The deceitful person knows for a fact that his advice is dishonest.
Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Austrian-born bodybuilder, movie actor and former governor of California, Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger, once described the deceitful mind games he used to play with much less famous bodybuilder competitors in the now legendary 1977 documentary ‘Pumping Iron’.
This is what Mr. Schwarzenegger said about his No. 1 rival and competitor, Lou Ferrigno:
“At the day of the contest, if he [Lou] comes in his best shape […] or if he is a few percent better as I am, I spend with him one night… I go downstairs with him and put us together in a room to help us for tomorrow’s contest, and that night he will never forget. I will mix him up. He is ready to lose. I will talk him into that, no problem.”
About his No. 2 rival and competitor, Franco Columbu, Mr. Schwarzenegger had this to say:
“Franco is pretty smart, but Franco is a child. And when it comes to the day of the contest, I am his father. He comes to me for advice. So it is not that hard for me to give him the wrong advice.”
Receiving the wrong advice from a deceitful father figure or your favorite sports idol can be catastrophic for your future career.
Mr. Schwarzenegger’s life is plastered with deceit. He left California a Third World shithole and he cuckolded a fifth child with a housemaid. Earlier than that, when he wanted to become an American citizen, he praised America’s freedom. When he got everything he wanted out of it, he spit on America: “Fuck your freedom!” But this is not to disgrace Mr. Schwarzenegger’s moral creativity. In fact, this is to enlighten his audiences. Mr. Schwarzenegger deceived hundreds of millions of bodybuilder fans over his obvious use of steroids.
Try to imagine yourself in your XXL Mens Tank Top pulling barbells at Joe Weider’s Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach in the 70’s as the helmsman for a multibillion-dollar fitness industry. You took steroids – testosterone, male hormones – to grow in unnatural size. Then you tell your fans on the telly, it is all in those barbells, which is what they see. You should also try it. Why,… you are not seeing results? Then try harder!
Mr. Schwarzenegger and all his bodybuilder friends in the universe know that barbells are not enough and that they must inject growth hormones to artificially stimulate muscle growth. That is why no bodybuilder could ever pass a blood test or urine sample over anabolic drugs for, say, competing in the Olympic Games. But that does not deter steroids users, who simply invented their own “Mr. Olympia” title and handed it to Mr. Schwarzenegger no less than seven times.
Anyways, this is the Menticide Manual‘s chapter on deceit. Did you like those Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger anecdotes I just used to explain deceit? Yeah, I wonder if he‘s going to become more relevant later.
Moral Dilemmas
Before we can understand why deceit is king, we must first understand why honesty is peasant.
Consider the following moral dilemma proposed by grand philosopher Immanuel Kant. I just modernized the theme a little bit, because Kant wrote in 1780.
Imagine in 1980, Michael Jackson came running towards you and said, there was an angry mob of parents who wanted to lynch him. Please do not tell them which way Michael Jackson ran.
Now the angry mob of parents come your way and ask you which way Michael Jackson went. You could say nothing, and they could beat you for the truth. You could lie and send them the wrong way. Or you could tell them the truth.
And here is the solution. If you are a superior person, if you have the mind-set of a king, then telling the truth is the worst decision you can make. Not only are you a bad person and can never be trusted for snitching, but you also got Michael Jackson lynched and his wonderful legacy ruined.
Deceitful Immanuel Kant was unimpressed: “You must never be dishonest,” he taunted the peasants, “You must always speak the truth!”
Now, this iKant stands for Western moral philosophy in a nutshell, and our peasant concept of “the truth” is of course heavily biased by Virgin Maria and Yabby Jezusss, the unemployable son of a carpenter and whatnot. Good Christians basically should never lie, because it is bad, bad, sinfully bad.
This ‘truth cult’ is what another great philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, later ridiculed as “slave morality” but we here shall refer to it as peasant mentality. And so, Immanuel Kant to this day in our universities is hailed as the greatest moral philosopher of all time, blending Christian theology with Greek fascism.
But what about the far more noble “moral codes” in the world? If Christianity conveys the peasant mentality, then Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism convey the mentality of superior men.
In the Hindu Mahabharata, an idiot priest who bragged to king Krishna about “always speaking the truth” went straight to hell. Why, because this is the logical consequence of dharma or duty – a superior person must always weight his duties against idiotic, inflexible moral fascism.
The Analects of Confucius convey the most flexible morals for superior men, and are thus considered the gold standard for grooming elites. And so does the Dao De Jing by the way, ‘The Book of Tao’, which informs us that power is like water, adaptable and flexible. These morals are excellent. These are the morals of superior gentlemen or kings, not the morals of unemployed woodworkers, social parasites or virgin mothers. The Mahabharata, the Analects of Confucius and the Dao De Jing are instruction manuals on how to become excellent and reign over the gullible peasants.
As to Siddhartha Buddha, I mean, C’mon, he is high-born, wealthy as fuck and a true king. Buddhism is the mother-lode of deception. It is all about dharma (duty) and maya (pretense) and prajna (intelligence) – and the blissful floating in six heavens and whatnot.
In all those superior moral teachings, Michael Jackson would be perfectly safe, because what is it your business that he liked little boys, I mean, compared to the joy and happiness of his pop songs ‘Beat It’ or ‘They Don’t Care About us’…
Mr. Lance Armstrong
Superior men at the top levels, whether it is our modern king‘s courts, fake democracies, diplomats (top cadre) and scientists and opinion leaders, have the duty to deceive us.
In the West, we have born kings and aristocracy. Our elites are Jewish or capitalists or read Machiavelli or join the Freemasons. Sure they may pretend to be good Christians if that helps. But it is what it is – deceit.
Since we already mentioned the “honest priest” in the Mahabharata who went straight to hell because, Hey, who can rely on him? here is another example of what happens to truthful idiots: Further down in the epic story line, prince Arjuna is supposed to be the greatest archer of the universe, trained by the greatest guru of archery in the universe, who trained together every day. Then, one morning, there comes this rival idiot archer Eklavya out of the forest. He had carved himself a wooden idol as a substitute archery-guru and practiced archery all by himself. And guess what: peasant Eklavya came in his best shape and he was a few percent better than Arjuna!
So Arjuna and his guru went downstairs with him and helped him for tomorrow’s contest. They mixed him up. They told him about the universe and his negligible role in it. They told him to cut off his thumb. Eklavya was ready to lose.
Cutting off your thumb seems like really bad advice to a rival archer. But I want you to think about your own life for a moment. From the point of view of prince Arjuna and his guru, they had to use deceit. Deceit is absolutely necessary for the reigning champ, so what were Eklavya‘s chances? He was not meant to be the leading man in this story. Are you, I mean YOU, meant to be the leading man in anything?
How much self-destructive, disabling advice have your betters bestowed upon you already? I bet they had you cut off your thumbs and toes and limbs, and poke out your eyes. It’s a metaphor: Tell the truth! Study hard! Be nice to women! Work! Pay taxes! Hail the king! Bad advice that was meant to knock yourself out and quit the race to the top.
Mr. Lance Armstrong is one of the greatest deceivers in sports history. Until he retired in 2005, he had won at least seven Tour de France cycling titles, which is considered a superhuman accomplishment, given that this is a sport that is notoriously plagued by cheating and doping. But not Armstrong, no! Not him. He was cycling’s most trusted and clean champ!
Now, remember that this is the Western hemisphere, where the peasants already believe in virgin mother Mary, the God-Pope-Messenger crap, Immanuel Cunt and Zero-steroid Schwarzenegger actors. So of course, they’ll worship this totally doping-free Lance Armstrong in cycling. Actually, Mr. Armstrong pulled off a god-level deceit. Not only did he not use dope, but he was also handicapped. Imagine that: Mr. Armstrong survived nut cancer and carpet-bomb cancer in… wait for it… his lymph nodes, his lungs, his brains and his abdomen. But don‘t worry, he still had 5 children with his remaining nut, and won every Tournament only using his left leg, and you, Sir, are a true idiot!
Of course, Mr. Armstrong denied deceit because he had all those book deals, movie deals, made billions for the cycling industry and cancer research, and so they let him win his 7th Tour de France. After all was set and done, he finally said Yes, I doped! All the time! Since he was 21 in fact. So what? he said, “Everyone dopes.”
The best advice Mr. Armstrong has ever given can be found on Youtube: “It is…. scale! Scale every morning, so you know your weight!” Go and do that, peasants.
Mr. Diego Maradona.
Deceit is the first duty of any role model. Take the soccer world. In the 1986 World Cup soccer quarter final between England and Argentina, short but creative star-player Diego Maradona leaped into the air and fist-punched a high cross ball into the English goal. He immediately ran to the sideline and celebrated his bogus goal, so his teammates joined the celebration, followed by half of the stadium. The referee was so mixed up, he readily believed the cheat. The referee counted the goal, and Argentina won the match. When Mr. Maradona was later asked in an interview, How on earth could you get away with it? The short man smirked and said it wasn’t his fist but “the hand of God” that scored the goal, and that it was not his fault if the idiot referee fell for it.
And because of this deceit, Mr. Diego Maradona is considered the greatest soccer player of all time.
Every one of them – from Mr. Schwarzenegger to Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Maradona – openly deceived the masses, because it is absolutely expected of superior men to deceit the masses and humiliate their rivals, no matter how.
An Industry of Deceit
As Sun Tzu wrote in his Art of War: “All warfare is based on deception.” And sports is a form of warfare. It is probably time to shred your childhood illusions. You have been deceived.
That is why Michael Schuhmacher won seven consecutive titles in Formula One races, and that is why Yokuzuna Asashōryū won twenty-five Sumo tournaments, and that is why Muhammad Ali defended his Boxing World Championship title nineteen times. Once a champion rises, he will be tested whether he is corrupt to the highest standard of the industry. Of course he has to be good at what he is doing, no question. But there are so many people on earth and talent is cheap. The winner usually takes all, and the true question for their entire sport is this: Is this a man of superior morality? If so, his rivals will magically step into the breaks, they will accidentally trip over their own feet or, if they still didn’t get the memo, they will be “taken downstairs in a room to help them for tomorrow’s contest.”
And while millions of clueless fans mindlessly pump barbells, watch soccer porn, or wish they could defeat nut cancer with a scale, we are now so advanced in the deceit department that we don’t even need real athletes any more to deceive the peasants. Good actors will do the job.
A perfect example of engineered deceit in sports is the 1986 “Cold War” propaganda movie Rocky IV. In this epic Hollywood blockbuster, American boxer Rocky Balboa (played by Sylvester Stallone) faces the indestructible Soviet boxer Ivan Drago (played by Dolph Lundgren, a Swedish man).
The first and obvious dimension of deceit is with “the athletes”: There are no real boxers in this movie. Those are actors. Nothing about “the boxing” is real. It is acted. But now realize this: it worked even better than with real athletes. That is because real athletes can cause moral hazards. Scripted athletes won’t. In fact, Rocky posters hung all over teenage walls and boxing clubs in the 80s and 90s.
But it is the political dimension of deceit that really takes the mickey out of engineered deception:
Here – the honest and fair, play-by-the-rules capitalist Rocky Balboa; There – the deceitful, play-dirty and cheating socialist Ivan Drago.
Drago is a word play on drako, which is dragon, your average preteen son has all figured that out by himself. That Russian is a monster, dad!
The roles were completely reversed in the script for maximal peasant mentality: While the Soviet Union in reality was dirt-poor and only five years away from total economic collapse, it was depicted in this movie as a super-advanced high-tech gymnasium with genetically improved boxers who take hormone jabs for breakfast. And while the United States in reality was super-advanced and high-tech, (and the actor of Rocky once caught with illegal steroids at an Australian airport) in this movie it was downplayed as the underdog with Rocky reconnecting to nature and him lifting snow carts and lumber logs in the wilderness.
Conclusion
Deceit, the giving of false advice that we know will not work for the peasants, let alone rivals and competitors, is going to stay with us. And the deceit is getting massive, because we are now 8 billion peasants.
When Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger won his first Mr. Olympia title in 1970, you probably thought he had to compete against hundreds, if not thousands in the world.
But no. There was just him and 2 others. Not Lou and Franco though, but Sergio and Reg. And we wonder… was all he had to do was go downstairs with them together in a room and mix them up, and they were ready to lose…
The author is a German writer and cultural critic.
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- The Menticide Manual – Framing
- The Menticide Manual – Inverse Reality
- The Menticide Manual – Stupidiocracy
- The Menticide Manual – Perseveration
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Another excellent installment, thank you! Coincidentally just today I was musing over over falsity and its deep roots in society, which seems to have accelerated in present times and is more confounding thanks to modern media and communication devices. I can only think that cognitive dissonance came into being as a response to being able to balance all the contradictory messages received in an effort to stay vaguely sane.
Particularly in a 21st century world that seems to be on the brink of all out crazy.
As the saying goes, There’s one born every minute.
Lie, Cheat, Steal, Murder. The US is a paragon of virtue that keeps on giving. Fake news, fake money, fake boobs. The truth though is being washed up on the Streets of San Francisco, syringes & excrement. Remember when they used to laugh at Indians defecating in the streets.
Another shocking deceit Dr. Pattberg is Martial Arts and in particular the movie Bloodsport. Stefan Verstappen a true hero who was actually at that tournament just laughs and mocks the unbelievable nonsense of it all. I’m sure you must know of the man and his work but if not well your in for a treat.
Enjoy!!!
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The laws of life are fixed and immutable. As such, as long as we’re inclined to practice deceit we will only be deceiving ourselves. The greater the deceit, the greater the fall when it comes. As eternal beings in a temporal world, we’re here to learn a series of lessons. Sooner or later the pigeons will come home to roost. In all of the cases mentioned by the author, which will be remembered for their achievements in their chosen fields? I doubt any, more likely their “achievements” will forever be a footnote to their deceits. And that dear friends, is the way of the world… when you’re on top everyone’s your friend and wants a piece of you, but when you’re down, no one wants to know you and lays the boot in at the slightest opportunity.
I hear you, however, if those friends have been coerced then, the enemy of my enemy and such timing out of Dodge is paramount. Remember those Libyans who were enticed by Uncle Sham to gut Qaddafi, well their camels have come home to roost. The Kurds should be jumping ship in the near future too; ill wind blowing their way.
Friend, the rich and powerful may be able to outrun the consequences of their actions a little longer than
the weak and poor, regardless of whether the weak call upon various ‘alibis’, such as “I was destitute, I had
no choice”, etc. Otherwise, human beings generally speaking, take the free lunch when they can, and ‘worry about the consequences later’. Free will has been given to man, so free will it must be.
“ so free will it must be”. True.
I think you resumed our condition really well: humans take the free lunch when they can, and ‘worry about the consequences later’. It is natural, even though we have our new toy, the neo cortex, to “ know better”.
Thus the dilemma.
Sébastien Bohler shows really well , in “the human bug”, the dynamics between “the striatum” of the reptilian brain and the cerebral cortex. The striatum is that little king which totally rules for having the exclusivity in secreting dopamine, rewarding and reinforcing the neuro pathways involved for bringing the meat, having sex, social status, minimal effort and info/distraction. So, the cortex brought it to the next level. What was serving our survival is now a threat of massive extinction. We got too smart for our own good. Our greed, laziness and other “sins” got out of proportion in their impact on the rest of the living. The good news is that the same cortex can shift, from being a pleasure junky dedicating its smartness to get more of its fix, into a “less is more” mode: mindfulness. For example, meditating on a raisin slowly devolving in my mouth, observing and savoring the process and getting plenty out of it. That is where I differ with the author of the deceit article. Yes, there is massive manipulation of the people through religion and ideologies, and yet, the label “superior man” doesn’t refer to a high rank elite deceiving people. It is not designed to fool the people into being virtuous, even if that is what the perversion of liberalism is about. “Superior man” refers to someone who expresses virtues of the heart through one’s actions, like sincerity, humility, courage and generosity. It refers of course to someone that has “self control”, a sens of restraint ( even restraining from too much restraint), and that practices mindfulness.
It is about being innocent although aware. It is to be free of blame, by not blaming. It is the ability to judge an affair “justly” and forgive often. The list goes on… we know in our heart what is true, and yes there is evil.
We create ourselves into superior or inferior creatures; It starts with a thought, which turn into a word, an action, then into a trait of the personality and then to destiny. “Perseverance in what is great” makes a great man and a great destiny. The elite is not the problem. The problem is that it is all inverted. As Nietzsche said, “ true aristocracy finds its legitimacy, not in the past but in the future”, we are then not entitled but entitling ourselves through our behavior to futur success and honor. The superior man of Nietzsche, that Zarathustra evokes, is unlightened/unlightening, like a sun spreading blessings to all. In times of darkness, he hides his brightness, and yet, still shines. According to time cycles from India, we are in the age of Kali Yuga, the age of conflicts…
it makes sense. Not a reason to accept deceit as the way to go, but it helps to accept it for the time being, and not being duped. We can be our own hero, by inviting the higher power to play out through us.
It is reverse deceit , I think… or, am I fooling myself again? Probably both.
Yes Dimitar, free will… a blessing and a curse. Thank you.
Good post but if possible I’d encourage you & some others to use “Paragraphs” which make reading posts much easier & more enjoyable. Long posts without paragraphs are crap to read.
Thank you so very much for your elaboration, Eric. If
we understand and accept that we have free will, then
it’s likely that most of us have tested the boundaries of
that free will at some point, and those of us who have
lived a little longer, will have noticed that there is often
a delay or a grace period between an action, and it’s
reaction. Since we’re discussing deceit, let’s say that
the action in question, in some way, shape or form,
involves deceit. We may know we’re practicing deceit,
but, for whatever reason, we continue with our behaviour.
Deceit usually involves some passion of the mind, and
we know that what we’re doing is wrong, but for whatever
reason, we allow the deceit to continue. Usually, it’s a lack
of self discipline, and we allow ourselves to become
enslaved to some passion of the mind, such as greed,
vanity, lust or whatever, and so form an attachment.
At some point we begin to see that the secret we carry
bears a price and we become aware that we are not
only betraying ourselves, but also our loved ones.
The deceit may extract a heavy or a relatively light price,
but sooner or later we generally accept that we begin to
plateau out in terms of what we are able to achieve
personally, and become frustrated that we’ve become
victim to the law of diminishing return, and so the question
arises, of whether we’re willing to sacrifice our attachment
in order to gain access to a new state of consciousness.
When we’re ready, we generally cut the attachment loose
and move on.
I submit that it’s for this reason that our Maker has given
us free will. I’ll revert to a couplet from Blake here;
“He who binds to himself a joy, doth the winged life destroy.”
I believe that we are each a unique creation of our Creator,
and accordingly, must find our own unique law to live by,
and so walk our own path back to God. The only requirement,
is that however we define our ‘golden contract’ it must be
in harmony with the Law of Love. ( The Law of Love essentially
states that in order to receive love, we must first be willing to
give love ). So the requisite for a life not wasted, is basically
to love something more then we love ourselves, ie; our own
passions.
In order to develop this love we need the freedom to do so.
So until we’re ready to sacrifice whatever is holding us back,
it will not be true sacrifice. That is, if the impulse is coming from
outside ourselves it’s likely we will lapse into the old ways again.
The impulse needs to come from within, ie; we need to give up
our attachments of our own volition before we can truly drink
of the waters that have been hitherto unavailable to us. And
this, as far as I understand, is why we have been given free will.
So, it may appear a curse in the short term, but in the long term
it’s a blessing.
If we accept that our purpose in life is to be carrier of Divine Love,
or the Creative Force, or however one defines an inspired and
fulfilled existence, then we must be a hundred percent ready and
willing to “take up the ploughshare” when we decide to do so.
In the meantime, our lives are governed by the Law of Karma,
which is a child, if you like, of the Law of Love. Bottom line; we
cannot be of ultimate use to God, or the Spiritual Hierarchy, if
we are not willing to make that a 100% commitment, and we
cannot make that commitment until we’re ready to do it whole-
heartedly. Ie; we will make a 10% commitment. Then we up that
to 20%, until one day God has all of us, lock, stock and barrel.
I’m elaborating on the idea of deceit as it involves us as individuals,
b/c at the end of the day our first responsibility is to ourselves, nor
is there much to be gained by pointing out deceit in others if we
ourselves are practicing it.
I must say the more i read of you Dimitar, well what a treasure you must be to those who know you.
and what comes next Sunday from Dr. Pattberg perhaps ‘lewdness’ which is next in line to the first Menticide Manual ever produced:
The book of St. Mark chapter 7 verse 20!!!
Cheers
Thank you Dimitar, for your reflection. As far as the Mahabharata is concerned, the consequences of the deceit practised is well known. To boil down the extensive knowledge which could be gained from the Mahabharata to just one incident of deceit, doesn’t seem to be appropriate, to say the least.
“reverse deceit” sounds like a very good maxim, and applicable to the other menticide titles ? Strive to live the truth of who you are, or who you were designed to be, the choice is ours.
The Latin route of deceit is ‘carpe’, to take, or seize, and in this sense, is the reversal of the act of seizure of opportunity for the good, for all people, potentially insuring benefit.
Here we go again, same theme, the devious seizure and manipulation of the good for purposes of destruction and chaos – ‘better the devil you know’ springs to mind, i.e. recognise and understand the figure of evil.
Presumably an intelligent adult is also free to compose their comment in the format style of their choice, the long paragraph personally suits me for speed reading. Each to his own.
Nice post Thorsten. There is a reason the “Sturgeon Larry”, takes to heart the saying, “Be as sly as serpents and as gentle as doves.”, regarding the caviar hunter. I believe the Western Beluga also follow this sage advice.
In response to the slaughter of the Innocents, getting out of Dodge is always the best response…
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Very thought-provoking. This resonates with my own observations over the decades. I came to the conclusion that it is all about charisma. I always follow charisma. They are all performers. Remember the WWF or WWE of the 80s and 90s with Hulk Hogan and Ric “Woooooooo!” Flair and Macho Man Savage? It was a lot of fun to watch. And if you said Bro, they are acting their parts, you earned a lot of hate. No way, the Hulk’s signature stomps and leg drops had to be real!
Wrestling was all scripted. Deep down, we knew. Not all the details were scripted. But who wins and how. Think of wrestlers as performance artists. They get paid to perform in front of audiences by doing physically tasking and dangerous things. It’s a spectacle. Race car drivers drive their company machines, musicians perform their industry songs, and wrestlers perform their scripted moves.
I was a great fan of boxing until it became obvious that is was going to become another black sport. There were some unusual exemptions like the Klitschko brothers from Ukraine, but honestly they were mediocre boxers and their performances did not convince me at all.
Superstars like Arnold Schwarzenegger made their sports and performances more interesting by pretending to have competitions. Like the controversial 1980 Mr. Olympia, where the organizers flew in out-of-best-shape Hollywood Arnold to win the contest. Everyone knew and saw with their own eyes how the competition was rigged.
As to boxing matches in general. I know that they are staged up to a certain level. For example, when they discovered new black talent, they quickly invented a dubious knock-out record. The undefeated champion backstory is a cliché. I did some amateur boxing. If it’s a fair day, boxing is pretty much 50:50. Naturally, you lose as often as you win.
Soccer is not strictly an athletic competition, rather they are competing as a team to outperform each other in terms of entertainment. Who has better moves? Who has technical skill? Who is charismatic? Who has the famous star players.
I would agree with the author that the charisma of the performer ranks supreme and helps determine a champion’s progression within the industry. If audiences were willing to pay to see Schwarzenegger perform in movies, if they let him win Mr. Olympia titles or Mr. Universe titles they will probably all be better compensated.
Another aspect is merchandising. Superstars like Michael Schuhmacher or Diego Maradona who do well, have merchandising deals, and get a small cut of the sales. If a particular champion’s merchandise sells well, its another sign of success and thus generates more revenue and allows the company and its employees to grow.
Many soccer leagues are scripted and trained for quite extensively. They try their best to stick to scripts, but there are lots of instances of things not happening according to plan, and players are expected to be adaptable and experienced enough to handle those things.
The crazy characters and stuff you see wrestlers doing are essentially a way to add flair. So if 99% of the audiences believe this is real, their job was well done.
Not being the objectively best, but to add personality and diversity will draw the widest possible audience.
Hope this helps!
I was a self-help guru. Here’s why you should never listen to people like me.
I learned the hard way that the people trying to solve your problems often need help the most. Schwarzenegger told everyone that he was a natural, but he knew that he needed testosterone injections.
He was lucky not to die young from oversize liver and heart, and not to lose his fertility. He turned to acting and politics just in time. Good for him.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is not a fraud. He is a first. He was there first. So his only advise to anybody should be: Be there first. But nobody can be first now after Schwarzenegger was first. So, you should not listen to any of his other self-help advise.
Most self-help advise is common sense anyways: Train hard, never give up, sleep twice as fast. He probably quoted from the Bible or recycled some Austrian proverbs.
Here, I am an Irish genius: “Don‘t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.” Now I am a Gaillic philosopher king!
How many more personal-growth sects or New Age movements do we need to know that it is all fake. Just buy yourself a Wise Quotes ebook and become the next self-professed philosopher, sexpert or real estate tycoon.
I had nothing against good advice from successful people at the top. Let them spill their false advice to the gullible. I just found it surprising that they always omit crucial details. Like who sponsored them, who wrote their script. Whom did they meet and how does the corrupt industry really works.
It is all smoke and mirrors and fake it till you make it. Those movie stars don’t know what they are talking about. They are actors.
I soon learned that playing pundit or spiritual coach is a hypocrite’s game. Behind those gurus are business plans, producers, event organizers and program directors. They approach those athletes and use their faces to sell self-help advice and coaching and masterclasses.
Attaining Schwarzenegger-like status is tough but not impossible, these charlatan fellow authors assure the masses.
The key is to monetize the dreams and hopes of the masses. I know the fitness industry is a shark tank, promoting not just food supplements and 2-years fitness club membership plans, but endless seminars, ebooks and $499 coaching packages.
And if you hear an advise from a banker or celebrity or CEO, you can bet they have not your best interest in mind either. They have only their own interest in mind.
They want to sell you a product attached to your hopes and dreams.
And I agree 100% that giving the wrong advice to their competitors and gullible fans is part of their success story.
I lived in Chengdu in China for two years and found that my landlady sent me off to places with the wrong directions, twice! I later brought that up in class and our Chinese instructor told us that it was very common in Chinese culture. If you ask people for directions, they would rather send you down a random path than to admit that they don’t know the way. This taught me a valuable lesson in life. Take care! Merry Christmas!
Great lesson. So true. The perfect gentleman is flexible. If asked, he has advice for everyone, but according to their personal and situational circumstances. He is aware of politics and etiquettes, whom he speaks to, what are his aims, what are their expectations of him, and why should he part with trade secrets or valuable information to rivals and fools? Merry Christmas!
“Be nice to women” is the worst advice you will ever get! It will put you right into my friend zone where you belong!
We didn‘t have the internet with Arnold Terminator or Rocky Balboa. So we believed what was printed in the magazines.
Rocky and Rambo. So American propaganda.
You should write a piece about beauty contests or Playboy/Hustler magazines. When they pick a girl and say this is the No 1 in the world, without there ever having been a real contest. So fake.
Rock and Schwarzenegger both used steroids. This is sabotage, but it helped them to get ahead of competition. So new guys need to think new ways to cheat. Don’t use the same method. And then you turn around and say it was all natural and the best won. So fake.
I think of gym industry and New Years resolutions. Train hard and you too can be a champ. Well, sorry to say that but you won‘t lose weight and you won‘t become the next 2022 Schwarzenegger.
I think that success just happens. You increase your odds by becoming proactive and creative. You meet the right people at the right time. You are willing to cheat and lie on command. Otherwise, how can the bosses show you the dirty secrets.
Don‘t chase success too much, or you will come over as creepy and desperate. That will make you sick and unattractive. Be humble.
Especially if you are born in Detroit, you simply do not have the means, so you need to attract rich sponsors. Males and females, you must look good at all cost, even if born dirt-poor! Also, men, if you can’t make it, move to Asia. Arnold moved to the West. Maybe you have to move to the East. Just a thought.
Otherwise, just do what you do best, improve yourself, and hope that it somehow helps to pay the bills. Do not worship fake idols! Do your own thing!
Dr Pattberg explains well why we are currently ruled by psychopaths – regardless of which country you choose to study. Psychologists say that 10% of males are psychopaths and only 1% of women. Perhaps for that reason, it is much easier to point out the female psychopaths in public life – Ursula von der Leyen, Madeleine Albright, Hillary Clinton, Madonna … They are so different from other 99%
I was brought up in a family where I was the only “normal” one. For that reason, for a long time I thought that there was something wrong with me. I just did not fit in. All four of them combined against me on all important matters. My brothers ensured that I got no inheritance from either parent. However, once I understood what was going on, I moved away from all of them. All the way to Australia. I started to enjoy my life. I found that by doing the “right thing”, I became lucky. You can call it Karma if you wish.
By a stroke of great luck, I was obliged to leave Australia just before the tyranny started. I have been moving in places where life is almost totally free. Where the psychosis is not to be seen. I am waiting for the “peasants” to wake up. To realise that it was a form of mass hypnosis by psychopaths. A Belgian psychologist calls it “Mass Formation”. A process that has happened many times before in history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLDpZ8daIVM
I agree that religion is largely a show to deceive the “peasants”. But that does not mean that spirituality does not exist – that Good and Evil do not exist. A glance at what is going on with vaccines being mandated will confirm that Evil is in ascendant. However, we are not alone. Good will eventually vanquish this evil. Those forcing these clot-shots will get their just desserts.
Total boss! I saw Pumping Iron and also noticed Arnie‘s extreme narcissism, but also his intelligence. He really was smart and articulate. So I believe he demoralized Lou and Franco just by being in the same room with them, hahaha!
Glorious article. Much appreciated…
Lance Armstrong donated his right bollock to cycling.
What i find deceitful to is this 10 billion dollar Webb Telescope launched on Christmas morning? Why pick a date like that really? And 10 billion dollars in a political and economic climate / crisis that exists today? I liken this to just another Tower of Babel attempt. They have faith to believe {song here https://youtu.be/TLs4MGTTXRU}
in their science but if the words of this song shouldn’t apply ultimately to ones faith in what was born that Christmas morning!!! If it did guess what would happen? We would find the solution to Climate Change and experience something truly miraculous perhaps even create paradise on the earth for everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!
instead for 20 billion dollars we will get little more than pictures of some distant star.
Sob, and real sobs.
I wish a superior man explained to me the folly of deceit. This wish must be due to the Christian side of me.
“Superior men at the top levels, whether it is our modern king‘s courts, fake democracies, diplomats (top cadre) and scientists and opinion leaders, have the duty to deceive us.”
Yes, so they tell us. I just watched ‘Finch’, the Hollywood dystopian movie with Tom Hanks. So Finch is the only human we get to see after the nuclear apocalypse. He is sick from radiation and lonely, so he built this humanoid robot, Jeff, for company.
As Finch and Jeff sit together in their truck, Finch explains to his robot the human concept of TRUST. I swear I almost dropped my cider and had to rewind it and watch it again.
Tom Hanks, the greatest movie star of all times, explains everything you need to know about the human hierarchy:
Finch said he gave a flying f*** about his team but when he was awarded a leadership role, he said to his bosses “I could not have done it without my team.”
The robot eventually gets it in the end. You can only trust people who are willing to LIE FOR YOU. You must NEVER SPEAK THE TRUTH. This is how you earn respect and rise through the ranks and to the top.
Nuff said!
“Deceit is the first duty of any role model.”
This is one of the hardest lessons in life. Yes, we tell our kids (who are really our pet slaves) Do Not Lie! Do Not Cheat! Yet, parents lie and cheat around their kids all the time. Christmas! Santa Claus! Mommy loves daddy! Oh, You are so pretty!
The smart kids figure it out. White lies and deceit are part of trust building process. You never tell mommy she is fat or daddy to kill himself. You hold them up high as your caretakers and creators.
Good kids become dependable, loyal and trustworthy. But the dumb ones took childhood all literally. They feel they had been lied to. The become truthers and expose the evil lies, so they won‘t do good in school, get along with friends, argue with teachers, can‘t hold a job, will never attain positions with responsibilities or run a successful business.
Good citizens read between the lines and know that our leaders must be lying. That‘s why they became good leaders.
I will never forget watching on TV a documentary of an experiment conducted upon children to learn what their responses would be to different stimuli. The room was a regular classroom but it had a one way mirror and the adults proceeded to run a number of experiments. I can’t remember them all suffice to say it was too many years ago now but the way the kids after being caught red-handed so to speak in the cookie jar and the way they lied was fascinating but shocking. One experiment was asking the kids not to touch or move a certain toy and as soon as the adult left the room voila. After watching through the looking glass at the action after an hour or so the adult then returned and was upset about the toy being moved though it had been put back in its proper place but not perfectly. The child became defensive and lied through his teeth. lol it was amazing to watch the goings on. It is something i will never forget.
But the all important question surrounding this kind of phenomena is of course how does one go about solving this? For those of us steeped in the bible the answer is a simple one Fear. That one way mirror exists and its tied to a video camera where every action and even every idle word is recorded to be played back in the presence of the owner of that technology. We every single one of us will find ourselves alone with our Creator who will watch it all while one is standing there to be rewarded accordingly.
But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. Mathew 12:36
What I or rather we should find especially frightening is well where the likes of the China Social Credit System is concerned is the question or rather saying, is what is good for the goose also good for the gander, meaning do you think what is being forced upon the populace is also going to be applicable to those in power over it all? The ultimate desire legislated morality? Control ones conscience and bread and voila the end of all wars? We Have the Technology.
It is interesting to see that both China and the West are gearing to a surveillance mode, where cheating is deterred. It is big, as cheating is part of the binary game theory that is in our survival program: cooperate or cheat.
The big difference is that , in the West it is a private set up: an “elite” owning all is providing a “communist” system for the “have-not”, well under control. On the other hand, China is more of an hybrid, where private business is allowed but under public control, through a sovereign government reflecting people interests. China ends up being much more truly democratic, even if they are being authoritarian. I think China is truly fighting corruption. China might not be exempt of deceit but at least it is not at the core of the system.
I believe that everybody in China, even the top dogs, are accountable for their actions.
I have enjoyed these manuals thoroughly and I must say I wish you keep writing, sir. Lots of respect from
an immigrant to Germany for better life of course.