Chapter 18 2.The more mundane something seems, the easier it is to manipulate us

Things that seem ordinary to us may also be performing.Please see the example below. In this world, there are many things that we think are commonplace and never reflect on them.And the less things that can cause us to reflect, once it is ready to manipulate us, it is often easy. For example, unless there are no conditions, the leader will definitely have a separate office instead of working in a large office with the employees.The purpose of doing so is not only to reflect the status and authority of the leader, but most importantly, the mystery of power must be maintained.The validity of power cannot be established without setting up a sense of mystery.

Power is not something independent, but a dominance relationship of domination-being ruled, managing-managed.Maintaining this kind of relationship needs to be backed by punishment and induced by reward, but if it is not disguised, it is no more awe-inspiring than the donkey in Liu Zongyuan's pen. On the road leading to Niucha, a group of people in disguise walked, followed by a group of idiots waving flags and shouting. In this mighty team, Comrade Liu Bang is the pioneer who does his part. In the first year of Qin II, that is, one night in 209 BC, as a village head of the Qin Empire, Bang Ge felt that his life had reached a crossroads.

Back then, he was a free-spirited hooligan who usually gambled with others, and went to the leisure center to wash his hair and have a massage when he was paid;However, since he took the job of escorting a group of criminals to Lishan for hard labor, this kind of good life for the middle class has become a thing of the past. The situation at that time was that the rain kept falling, and the atmosphere was not harmonious. The criminals took advantage of the cover of the heavy rain and escaped in a short while, showing a bit of arrogance.At that time, Bang Ge had only two boys, and he was not their opponent at all if he wanted to kill the criminals; if he didn't kill the criminals, all the criminals escaped, and he could only be chopped down by his superiors.At that moment, he seemed to hear Hamlet's classic sentence pattern: "Is it a bullshit or a fool, that is the question!"

People are sometimes forced.At a juncture of social change, many people are in much the same position.But a successful person has an advantage over others, that is, he can always calm down and smell opportunities. Standing on that night at the end of the Qin Dynasty, through the smog of the years, Liu Bang seemed to see the majestic self who would sit on the throne of the president of Han Dynasty Co., Ltd.Now, he is being forced to make a venture capital investment.He wants to dig the first pot of gold! The solution is: pretend! Restore actor Liu's actions and language at that time.He drank a glass of wine, smashed the bowl decisively and smartly, and then turned back to the criminals full of pride and said: "Brothers, if you go to Lishan Mountain, you will definitely die. I will let you go now, run for your life!" I’m leaving too.” The criminals were taken aback for a moment, and then someone took the lead, and the others shouted together: “Boss, we’re not going, we’ll follow wherever you go, and we’ll do whatever you want to lift your shoes!”

Why is there such an effect?Let's analyze and analyze. Assuming that Actor Liu called for "everyone to rebel together", it can be judged that this is a stupid strategy.The reason is simple. Although criminals have a very high chance of death whether they escape or revolution, but if they only rely on life instinct to drive their choices, if they choose to resist openly, they will only feel that they will die faster and worse psychologically!Of course, the stone is chasing after the egg to smash the egg, but isn't it stupid for the egg to hit the stone by itself? What about injecting an emotional element?That's completely different.Injecting emotion injects meaning into choices, injects morality, and transforms them from a person who is afraid of death to an actor who wants to play a play for others to see!

In that case, Actor Liu can just use his identity to inject emotional factors into them.Isn't he the leader who sent them to serve as hard labor? "Let" the criminal escape for his life, although it is actually a false proposition, but in the criminal's heart, it means that Leader Liu is determined to save his life at the risk of beheading! For such a big brother who can pretend, if you don't hang out with him, who will you be with? In the cruel contest for the world in the last years of the Qin Dynasty, only in terms of the quality of acting, it was determined that Comrade Xiang Bawang could only be eliminated by Mr. Liu Rogue.The reason is very simple. Comrade Xiang is a "true actor" who plays his true self, so he lacks defense in intellectual structure, while Mr. Liu only plays a "situational role", his true self is hidden in the dark, always in the dark. spy on the opponent.