Post by Caylus Ark on Jun 10, 2018 3:19:55 GMT
Note: the source of this information is from a narcissist who self published an expose on how he does smear campaigns against unwanted individuals. I want to remember it the best I can so I’m going to roleplay and write from the first person as if I am the narcissist. I think the information will be relayed more accurately this way because that’s how I read it. This was a real book at the bookstore. It seemed very under funded but it was quite interesting.
I am going to run a smear campaign against you, because I am a narcissist and you are no longer a source of supply to my ego or you present a threat to my current sources of supply. You will come to learn as I do this how surprisingly easy it is and how any effort you make to defend yourself against my smear campaign is going to make you look worse.
There are a number of ways for me to quickly fuck up your reputation now that I have decided I want to. I take careful effort to preserve my self image so people think I am being genuine when I make claims. If people were always suspicious of each other society would break down, so I know I can smear you and people will take it at face value. Even if they don’t believe what I say 100% they now have doubt and nothing you say will erase that. But the fact is I will probably be able to use something against you that is at least partly true and just manipulate and distort that truth.
This won’t be hard for me because I already collected tons of information about you when I was figuring out how to best manipulate you. So I can just take the fact that you gamble and cast you as a dysfunctional and destructive addict, and people will know you gamble, take it as truth, and they will give me sympathy. Or I say you tried to attack me when I attacked first. You still defended so I get believed. The best part is I get two kicks out of this: I get fuel from how defensive and emotional you get because you are being lied about and people are buying in, and I get fuel from my main supporters that want my favor and will avidly provide me sympathy. If you show up to try and defend yourself, I can call you obsessed, crazy, and a stalker. I actually really would love for you to show up all bent out of shape demanding to know why I would lie so that I can make you look even worse to my supporters and your supporters whom I might manage to bring over to my side.
You will find that even people who really adore you don’t want anything to do with this conflict because humans are conflict aversive and they will become uncomfortable being asked to stand against someone or take your side. They’d rather you not rock their world and they don’t want to get drawn in to the firing squad so I suppose you will find yourself quite alone dealing with the damage to your reputation, your new haters, and the lies I have successfully spread. I will tell everybody you’re a drama queen even though blatantly attacking you is a surefire way to make you feel dramatic. I love it when you are a drama queen because I actually live for riling people up emotionally and sucking up all their energy.
I’ll pretend to be concerned about your mental health and then people will also think I am being Caring and Compassionate. All you know about me are the lies I’ve told you and because you’re a good person, you were honest and gave me true things to use as ammo. I love that you are mad because you see my lies and everyone thinks the liar is you. This is the sort of thing I do best. I spread my smear before you are aware its happening, and once the rumors are everywhere, you’re already late to the party. Defending yourself makes you seem unstable and concerned. Yet you are right, I did it for completely malicious ends. Haha. Maybe I will lead you into believing that I will “take you back” and make it stop. Maybe I will, or maybe I’ll just fuck with you again.
Eventually you will probably double back on yourself and accept that I am actually right and you should blame yourself. You will do this as a way to defend your already broken ego from further harm by taking the winning side. In effect though this will cause you pain too and maybe even cause you to resent yourself. Maybe in doing this I’ll create a new psychological complex for you to contend with in everyday life.
This is how I, a narcissist, operate. Perhaps you saw through me and realized I am full of manipulations. Maybe that’s why you are a target...you wouldn’t buy in, but annoyingly you were ever “there”, hogging my airspace, associating with my supplies. Eventually I had to take action so that you didn’t make it harder for me to eat. I can’t risk you telling people how I operate. Now I have struck first and they won’t believe you, because after all I am the one who got hurt. You attacked me with your insane notions and then you followed me everywhere. I am the victim. People are in danger because of you. Maybe I believe this now.
You want to really piss me off? Ignore me. Don’t get emotional. Don’t confront me. Don’t look at my social media account where I have run my propaganda. Pretend I don’t exist. I absolutely hate that. I will have done some damage already, but I am counting on the fact you are too noble to cut your losses and allow some people to be fooled by my act. I’m a cheater cuz I lied and you wanna punish me. I’m counting on it. So if you just explain yourself one time and then cut your losses I’m going to be rather disappointed. It’s also possible you’ll preempt my maneuver, in which case I just may not bother going through with it.
This works out awesome for me and bad for you. Only somebody with no morals would do this, and I am one of those people. Now you know.
I am going to run a smear campaign against you, because I am a narcissist and you are no longer a source of supply to my ego or you present a threat to my current sources of supply. You will come to learn as I do this how surprisingly easy it is and how any effort you make to defend yourself against my smear campaign is going to make you look worse.
There are a number of ways for me to quickly fuck up your reputation now that I have decided I want to. I take careful effort to preserve my self image so people think I am being genuine when I make claims. If people were always suspicious of each other society would break down, so I know I can smear you and people will take it at face value. Even if they don’t believe what I say 100% they now have doubt and nothing you say will erase that. But the fact is I will probably be able to use something against you that is at least partly true and just manipulate and distort that truth.
This won’t be hard for me because I already collected tons of information about you when I was figuring out how to best manipulate you. So I can just take the fact that you gamble and cast you as a dysfunctional and destructive addict, and people will know you gamble, take it as truth, and they will give me sympathy. Or I say you tried to attack me when I attacked first. You still defended so I get believed. The best part is I get two kicks out of this: I get fuel from how defensive and emotional you get because you are being lied about and people are buying in, and I get fuel from my main supporters that want my favor and will avidly provide me sympathy. If you show up to try and defend yourself, I can call you obsessed, crazy, and a stalker. I actually really would love for you to show up all bent out of shape demanding to know why I would lie so that I can make you look even worse to my supporters and your supporters whom I might manage to bring over to my side.
You will find that even people who really adore you don’t want anything to do with this conflict because humans are conflict aversive and they will become uncomfortable being asked to stand against someone or take your side. They’d rather you not rock their world and they don’t want to get drawn in to the firing squad so I suppose you will find yourself quite alone dealing with the damage to your reputation, your new haters, and the lies I have successfully spread. I will tell everybody you’re a drama queen even though blatantly attacking you is a surefire way to make you feel dramatic. I love it when you are a drama queen because I actually live for riling people up emotionally and sucking up all their energy.
I’ll pretend to be concerned about your mental health and then people will also think I am being Caring and Compassionate. All you know about me are the lies I’ve told you and because you’re a good person, you were honest and gave me true things to use as ammo. I love that you are mad because you see my lies and everyone thinks the liar is you. This is the sort of thing I do best. I spread my smear before you are aware its happening, and once the rumors are everywhere, you’re already late to the party. Defending yourself makes you seem unstable and concerned. Yet you are right, I did it for completely malicious ends. Haha. Maybe I will lead you into believing that I will “take you back” and make it stop. Maybe I will, or maybe I’ll just fuck with you again.
Eventually you will probably double back on yourself and accept that I am actually right and you should blame yourself. You will do this as a way to defend your already broken ego from further harm by taking the winning side. In effect though this will cause you pain too and maybe even cause you to resent yourself. Maybe in doing this I’ll create a new psychological complex for you to contend with in everyday life.
This is how I, a narcissist, operate. Perhaps you saw through me and realized I am full of manipulations. Maybe that’s why you are a target...you wouldn’t buy in, but annoyingly you were ever “there”, hogging my airspace, associating with my supplies. Eventually I had to take action so that you didn’t make it harder for me to eat. I can’t risk you telling people how I operate. Now I have struck first and they won’t believe you, because after all I am the one who got hurt. You attacked me with your insane notions and then you followed me everywhere. I am the victim. People are in danger because of you. Maybe I believe this now.
You want to really piss me off? Ignore me. Don’t get emotional. Don’t confront me. Don’t look at my social media account where I have run my propaganda. Pretend I don’t exist. I absolutely hate that. I will have done some damage already, but I am counting on the fact you are too noble to cut your losses and allow some people to be fooled by my act. I’m a cheater cuz I lied and you wanna punish me. I’m counting on it. So if you just explain yourself one time and then cut your losses I’m going to be rather disappointed. It’s also possible you’ll preempt my maneuver, in which case I just may not bother going through with it.
This works out awesome for me and bad for you. Only somebody with no morals would do this, and I am one of those people. Now you know.