Chapter 2236: Late Autumn in Jincheng (XIX)

Schiller has always believed that people are born with the ability to manipulate the mind, which is human instinct.

When a person is still a baby, he will cry to remind his parents to take care of him. This is the most primitive manipulation, but usually both parties are unaware of it.

There is a type of children who have failed in education and will also show similar tendencies. When they are still able to cry, they use crying to threaten their parents to satisfy their desires. When they are no longer able to cry, they use throwing tantrums to threaten their colleagues and friends, also to make them satisfy themselves. This is the lowest level of manipulation, and usually both parties are unaware of it.

But if you look for the common points between the two, it will be easy to find that the intense emotions displayed by these manipulators can bring other people a similar reaction to pain. People must find a way to stop this pain, and if the person in a strong position does not have the determination to stop the pain, it will become a way to meet his needs.

Emotions are of course the key to manipulation, but there is actually a significant difference between normal venting of emotions and using emotions to manipulate others. Schiller has published 2 to 3 monographs to demonstrate the connection and difference between the two.

The easiest thing for ordinary people to distinguish is that in most cases, there is no very obvious direction in venting emotions. People who are caught in intense emotions have a blank mind, cry so hard that they can't speak, get angry and speak incoherently, and laugh as if they are about to die.

The area of ​​the human brain is limited. When some intense emotions burst out, the rational part will be compressed to the minimum, and they usually cannot coexist.

But if a person's emotions have a very obvious direction, especially with "I will stop if you do this", or "If it's not you, why would I cry", this kind of direction is a kind of mental manipulation.

Human emotions are instinctive, and the reason why they burst out is because they are not completely controlled by human reason. If he can let it burst out and stop at will, then this is not a real emotion, but just a disguise.

When emotions burst out, people can only feel pure emotions, not the source behind the emotions. If most of the brain is still thinking about the source behind the emotions, it means that he also has enough brain area to curb this emotion.

If he doesn't do this, it means that he wants to achieve his goal through this emotion, which is not venting, but manipulation.

Accepting the intense emotions of others is a very painful thing. When people's empathy organs work normally, they will always be unconsciously infected by emotions. The more intense the emotions are, the more energy is needed. It is not possible to do it by ignoring rational requirements.

Empathy is a curse that humans are born with and is not controlled by any rationality.

Then showing intense emotions can be regarded as a means of punishment. If you don't satisfy me, I will stuff a lot of things into your empathy organs until you become extremely painful.

If parents do not meet their requirements, the bear children will cry loudly. This crying is obviously not because of sadness, but to punish parents so that parents can meet their unreasonable demands.

If this child happens to not encounter any tough superiors in the process of growing up to make him understand that there is a price to pay for using emotions as weapons, then he will rely on this method until he becomes an adult.

Most of them are stupid and will be taught by the more cruel adult society, but there are also some talented individuals who do not need teachers to teach, and can understand the truth and realize how much convenience this invisible punishment method can bring to themselves by manipulating others.

Then they will become real manipulators, and the method is no longer low-level crying and making a fuss, but instilling many unacceptable emotions to people in a calm way, making them at a loss, extremely panicked, and willing to pay any price to end this situation.

The only choice for the manipulated is to meet the needs of the manipulator.

Of course, not everyone realizes that they are manipulating others. During the long years of growth, they have used this method countless times, constantly improving and integrating it until it becomes their instinct and part of their personality.

When the instinct of manipulation is embedded in their personality, their every move, every word and every action manipulates others at all times, becoming a veritable mental sadist.

They do not think they are perverted, because this has become their instinct. Manipulation is not their means, but themselves. They think they are such people. All the emotions that burst out to manipulate others are their real emotions. When they pretend to be true, they are also false.

This manipulation skill developed among the general public is not very brilliant, but if it is supplemented with theoretical knowledge and the shining points of some manipulators themselves, they will become excellent masters of manipulation.

Inferior manipulators only use emotions as weapons to whip others, which is a punitive manipulation. Really good manipulators usually reward and punish at the same time. They will wield the whip at the right time, but at the same time, they will package their own eye-catching advantages into sweet candies, making people happy even if it hurts.

The opposite of manipulation is anti-manipulation. The best anti-manipulation is to manipulate others. Schiller wanted to explain this to Bruce. When Bruce dared to manipulate Schiller, it meant that he had completely gotten rid of Schiller's manipulation.

But many people, especially those who are kind and have a high moral bottom line, have an instinct that they cannot sit back and watch any suffering in life, so naturally they cannot skillfully use their emotions to punish others.

So either they can train themselves to close their empathy organs, or at least reduce their ability to accept other people's emotions, so that they are not so easily punished by emotions.

Or they can only be physically isolated, and run away as soon as they feel something is wrong, but it should be noted that the standard for judging what is wrong is always their own feelings, and no matter how sensitive they are, it is not too much. As long as there is any discomfort, they must not tolerate it, otherwise once the alarm is blunted, they cannot feel the source of danger but continue to suffer, and they will definitely slide into the abyss of depression. And there is a more niche proposition between manipulation and anti-manipulation, that is, induced manipulation.

There are many psychological monographs on mental abuse, and there are even more psychological monographs on anti-mental abuse, but so far, Schiller should have published only a psychological monograph on how to cultivate a mental sadist.

Because this is a completely academic article, some less rigorous inferences and conjectures cannot be published on it, so Schiller's actual research results are much more than what is shown.

The theory still starts with babies.

Why do babies know that adults will satisfy their needs as long as they cry?

According to common sense, babies can only make sounds when they are uncomfortable, because they can't speak, so they can only howl and cry. The sharp cry is actually just him venting his emotions.

But if we push the timeline a little further back, how did humans or animals evolve the ability to howl?

Animals have the need to communicate, but if we extend it to the initial vocalization and listening functions, it is probably not a complex communication, but just a simple warning.

Discovering danger and notifying companions is the original function of the vocal organs of all creatures. Even if some creatures use sound waves or other similar things instead of sound, their initial function must be warning.

There is also a saying that women have a higher range of voice than men. In fact, once the tribe encounters danger, there needs to be a member of the tribe who can use a higher range of voice to notify the distant guards to participate in defense or evacuation. The same is true for babies.

Therefore, in the evolution of tens of millions of years, the cries of women and babies will instinctively arouse people's vigilance. Some more sensitive people will feel very irritated when they hear similar sounds. It is a kind of restlessness that has been flowing in the blood since the primitive period, and it is an awakened vigilance instinct.

So the baby's howl is because of pain, but the fundamental reason for the development of the howling function is to express pain and remind others at the same time.

And the reason why this function has been preserved to this day is that the tribes that noticed the warning sound survived, while those who ignored the warning were destroyed by danger.

Babies who cry loudly enough will be taken care of by their parents in time, while those who are not sensitive enough and will not cry will be easily ignored and cannot grow up well.

The more adept at using emotions to punish people who are good at waving whips, the easier it is to attract people's attention and make profits and succeed by manipulating others.

On the other hand, crying may be just to express pain and warning at the beginning, but once someone responds, they will realize that it is effective, and this instinct will be strengthened.

For the manipulators, once they have tasted the sweetness of it, they will become more and more intense, intentionally or unintentionally constantly trying, honing their skills, and even developing a hobby until they become addicted to it and completely rely on it.

The essence of cultivating manipulators lies in this, and induced manipulation is also based on this theory. Once the manipulator sends a signal of manipulation, he controls his emotional changes and shows pain, making them think that their manipulation is successful.

An obvious benefit is that this will make them relax their vigilance, so once they encounter a difficult mental manipulator, they can't get rid of it after trying many methods, and induced manipulation will be the last weapon.

Because in addition to making the other party relax their vigilance and convenient for escape, the skilled and daring can also try to give the other party strong positive feedback to make the other party continue to project energy until the other party's mental threshold is raised to a point where you are indispensable, turning into a mental addict.

In this way, if you withdraw from it after that, the other party will either become extremely empty and painful, and become a hero again after 18 years, or want to go one step further on others and finally get a three-year iron rice bowl.

Schiller knew that Lex must have a talent for mental manipulation. He was afraid that he could use this skill freely without his training. What's more valuable is that it hardly affects himself. It is a weapon rather than a skeleton.

But Schiller needed to determine what level Lex was at, so he needed to induce him to see how well Lex could manipulate it.

From a technical point of view, it was not difficult. As the saying goes, don't use your hobby to challenge other people's careers, and don't use your career to challenge other people's lives. For Schiller, acting emotions is his life.

But the only problem is that Schiller has not signed Lex's graduation file. He is still his professor. Any manipulation and abuse of students' mental aspects is against the teacher's ethics. Arrogance has always had its bottom line in this regard.

But morbidity does not.