Charisma Peddlers

Thievery without Force

Throughout your life, you might have noticed a sub-set of people with unique upper-percentile competencies — competencies that make other people like them, follow them, love them. Do whatever they say…

These people have a powerful skill.

The People-person

With their powers, these people can create gigantic webs of people full of admiration and respect for them — you’ve likely been drawn into one before.

We all have.

Reflect on how you felt about this person — that desire to be liked, that desire for their attention, perhaps sparked by a charming aloofness and competency in display. Perhaps they are good-looking and you keep wanting to look their way.

Notice that genuine smile that makes you feel like everything is okay — an acceptance of your being — by simply listening and deeply looking into your eyes.

Most people can’t do this unless they are very comfortable with the person they are interacting with. The truth is, most people can’t freely give the gift of human connection — the thing that many of us need so much.

Those that do though, will exploit it. These people will learn that they are unique in their talents.

When you talk to them you have a deep satisfaction from realizing somebody cool actually likes you — you fall right into their frame: that it’s mighty generous of them to give you any of their time at all.

Arguably, these people are born and not made. For the most part, these are God-given talents. The most that us normies can do is emulate them to sharpen our sub-par people-skills.

From an early age they use charm to get what they want. They exude positivity so people want to be around them. They are extroverted with a contagious smile — they are hard to say “no” to.

Like how big strong athletic people are groomed their whole life to utilize their particular set of athletic gifts, these people find themselves in roles that take full advantage of their gifts of influence.

Throughout their lives they are encouraged to go out and make friends. Furthermore they often have good experiences in these social settings so they continue to seek them out, having an unfair advantage over the socially-awkward. Into their careers, they contribute to society with this powerful skill-set. Their skills help them become salesman, executives, politicians, and customer service agents.

But like how a big and strong athletic person can choose to use his skill set to beat up and rob people, all powers can be used for good or evil. Productive or destructive.

A people-person, as we have described, can have a powerful frame that is inspiring and truthful. Or it can be purposely used to strike fear and deceit in the hearts of those under his control.

When used for good, this person will exude leadership and responsibility. With the sustainable good in mind, this power can help him achieve a fair and morale future — influencing those around him to follow ethical codes of conduct. Doing good business.

On the other hand, when used for evil, this people-person sows deceit and emotional manipulation. He creates a culture that is unsustainable and toxic. Indeed, the power to forcefully manipulate with exclusion and back-channeling can be enticing. This type of power over people is often abused by these charisma-peddlers…

Whom use their powers immorally, to cheat and steal. For selfish short-term gain.

Charisma-peddlers

Our post-modern societies have large swaths of people drained dry by them. It’s a perfect storm of extreme competency (people-skills) and a lack of moral frameworks.

Indeed, there are large swatches of people ripe for the picking — whole generations susceptible to loneliness and lacking a meaningful narrative to their lives.

Most individuals deeply desire to know someone whom embodies their highest ideals, and as the strong institutions that produce these people erode, this role is often up for candidacy.

There is a marketplace for this type of role, and the charisma-peddlers produced a cheapened product to replicate it.

On one occasion, they are branded as a religion, another might be branded as a business, a spiritual guru, or branded with a familiar institution already ingrained in our culture — but in it’s essence, it’s always the same scheme:

They form an organization, a web of influence, and then they don’t forcefully steal — they persuade. They charm. They entice. They weave dreams and fantasies into the minds of those they wish to control.

Of course, on the surface it’s way more subtle than that. It looks like motivational speeches — it looks like meetings — it looks like literature.

Nonetheless, taking someone’s money when you don’t give them anything of value is stealing. Whether you’ve skillfully persuaded the other person to hand it over or you forcefully make it a reality, the results are the same.

However, if you’re skilled enough to do it, the former method is much more convenient.

People in these organizations are being robbed for no good reason other than to feel good in the short-term. To feel like they are part of something greater than themselves — that somebody cares about them.

And because the concept of these organizations is highly nuanced, both psychologically and philosophically, the law deems them acceptable, further empowering these charisma-peddlers. Simply because their people never realize they are being stolen from and they are doing willingly, they carry on their misguided ways.

The good news is that these organizations are seedy and live in the shadows of mainstream media, among the various sub-niches in our culture. Funnily enough, among the sports teams and running clubs, among the churches and boy’s scouts — there are charisma-peddlers and their webs of influence — their money cows.

The self-help book, their vitamins, their “courses”. Valueless junk veiled by charismatic marketing.

Unable to grow past certain levels of saturation, they grow slowly and sporadically — never enough to become the mainstream culture, but enough to have rumors spread about them. Different branches will pop up in nascent demographics.

If you’re susceptible you will be drawn in, else you will be disgusted. For the most part, the sentiment is one or the other.

Like this, they stay very niche, but are always lurking to pounce on every opportunity to become part of someone’s life and have that life sucked dry of all it’s resources. All it’s time and money.

Unfortunately, these organizations are like a mythical monster that lurks in the shadowy parts of society, picking off those who are lonely and weak.