Being Played For Fools

I have seen a number of situations in which a player or a salesman would play a woman and trick her into thinking himself a good person when he was not. He would show his true colors later, at a huge expense to the woman. Then he would apply the same skills that he used in order to play a woman to play everyone else and get them thinking that he was the good guy and that she was the villain.

The person who knows how to play a woman will also know how to play everyone else. He would go around getting sympathy, getting people to think that he was the good guy and that the woman was the bad guy. He would be playing the courts, the social services, the people around him, you name it. And many of these would be played for fools and believe his lies.

The mistake that many people make is mistaking “nice” for “good.” In fact the two are completely different things. Nice is a social front; goodness is righteousness of heart. I have heard an American woman say that sometimes nice people are worse than mean ones. Many people who are into “nice” tend to be absolute sharks. They wear a nice front while doing everything in their power to advance on bruised backs.

Whereas the person who is actually good is likely to be sincere. And sincere people get attacked.

What we see in these situations and many others is a Big Lie. The conman gets people to think that he is a good guy when he is a bad guy. Whereas the person who is sincere is regarded as a villain or a psycho or worse. The result, on the social level, is everyone living a lie. And that is very bad for society.

So it is time that this behavior be seen for what it is and be exposed for what it is. We are seeing conmen get the authority in society and genuine people be demonized. And that creates a perverse set of incentives to reward dishonesty and punish honesty. Once again, the world does not benefit from this one bit.

I have seen this happen in many situations. And my response is that it's time that more people see through this behavior. They are being played for fools; the rest of the world is being played for fools. And that creates a worse world for everyone.