How to Program A Mindset with Everyday Technology
Lesson Learned, again. Who isn't a natural master of manipulation. In one extreme some people just don't know they do it. On the other hand some people are extreme and mindful masters of such deceptive practices. In this essay I am going to illuminate an example of how to program a mindset with everyday technology, specifically apps and app icons. This is on no way being shared for the purposes of unscrupulous characters to enhance the qualities of their deceitful ways. Rather, I am sharing this to give the reader yet another something to look out for in everyday life because, whether you like it or not, you are artifically susceptible if you communicate wirelessly.
People can use ordinary objects, visuals, words, etc. as tools for or against another. Whether we are attentive to it or not, it seems such activity is a natural way of life. Either way, doing such is intentional manipulation. Either way, is it OK? Is it okay to use manipulative tactics to get what you want, to have it your way? Such activity, good or bad, is deceitful and eventually, painful as it may or may not become, will be found out. That is unless one decides not to entertain such a possibility. If you are that type of entertainer, be careful the reflection and processing does not itself become a manipulator.
In addition to human behavior, technology is also suspect. Having said that is in no way a defense or admission of my own innocence.
Modern Example. I never used a certain app for communicating until I met ___. This was the first and only individual I communicated with at the time.
My device settings were such that the app icon would pop up whenever I recieved a message.
After about a month the app icon associated as an identifier of the individual I was communicating with, kinda like a face.
In time the individual I was communicating with became aggressive and masterfully manipulative, eventually breaking me down into what felt like being an equivalent of a caged animal, frequently starved and poked with a stick.
During and since the end of my relations with that individual (now intentionally blocked), I have developed new friendships and relationships with others and we use that same app to communicate.
For a short time the app's notification icon associated with my aggressor. Eventually the power I gave to my aggressor began to wane and fade into the backdrop having been replaced with more meaningful and positive people and relationships.
Unfortunately the other will be tattooed and scarred in its place in my life skin, but I got that covered now. Still adapting, it takes time and is becoming more manageable.
Such is life and that's OK.