Dark Management Needs To Be In Its Best Forms Before It Can Go Away Altogether

In Enneagram, there’s a saying that the ego needs to operative constructively before one can let go of those ego needs and hence fully live as the essence, so the levels of development involving the personality of someone needs to be healthy first, only then personality integration, and thus reaching one’s full potential, can become possible. Dark management works in a similar way that, before a dark manager can let go of dark management once and for all, he/she first needs to become one of the best dark managers, because dark management is about maximizing self interest even at the cost of just about everything else, and it’s hard to overcome the fear of not having enough self interest when one doesn’t even know how to maximize it without harming the others.

To be more precise, in order for dark managers to really make a clean break with dark management, the whole concept of “self interest” needs to be radically redefined:

Self interest should be about how many other people consistently and deeply love your true self as well as how much you’re sustainably ecstatic with who you really are

Needless to say, this definition will seem to be far too good to be true to be applied into the real lives of most people most of the time, because self interest has been traditionally about how much external resources you’ve secured that can help you ensure your survival and thus powerfully counter the fear of death, which firmly stems from the most fundamental instincts of nearly all organisms, meaning that it’s extremely hard for an individual, let alone the majority of the mankind, to overcome this compulsion right from the very human DNA, especially when human existed for millions of years but civilizations only started several millennia ago, thus implying that the evolution speed of human brain has been much lower than that of the civilization right from the start.

Simply put, the stupidest, typical and best dark managers behave in the following manners when it comes to maximizing self interest:

Stupidest dark managers — They don’t even know how they can sustainably maximize their self interests, let alone in ways that don’t irreversibly harm the others too much

Typical dark managers — They know how they can sustainably maximize their self interests, but only in ways that cause their victims to be unsustainable

Best dark managers — They know how they can sustainably maximize their self interests by making their victims feel that their self interests are being maximized by those dark managers as the self interests of those victims are aligned with those of the dark managers

While the common fear behind the obsessions with maximizing self interest is the fear of death, the best dark managers are very confident that such fear can be easily countered and so they’re both externally and internally stable, while the typical managers have to keep putting forth hefty efforts just to feel that they’re safe enough from such fear and so they appear to be externally stable but are actually internally unstable, whereas the stupidest dark managers are both externally and internally unstable as they feel completely overwhelmed by such fear and totally lost control of everything so they’ve to desperately do anything that seem to have a chance to instantly mitigate such fear a bit temporarily.

Steps To Overcome The Fear Of Death

Those experienced in spiritual practice or similar exercises probably know that you can’t just let go of such an immense yet subconscious fear of death immediately, as you’ll likely start from not even realizing such fear does exist within you to begin with, and then go back and forth thorough these non linear steps instead:

1. You realize that such fear does exist within you but refuse to accept it by subconsciously pretending that you’ve already “defeated” the fear of death even when you know next to nothing about it
2. You accept that everyone including yourself has such fear but still unconsciously run away from such intolerably uncomfortable feeling when such fear’s triggered by your past pains elusive to your conscious mind
3. You become able and willing to barely tolerate the extreme discomfort from such fear but still have to constantly put hefty efforts to do so causing you to consistently feel exhausted when seriously doing that
4. You’re used to the now much more moderate discomfort from such fear and can finally start living peacefully with it but still don’t know what unseen past pains trigger your specific fear of death so frequently
5. You at last thoroughly comprehended why the essence behind your specific fear of death is that and you can start to try to gradually let go of the previously hidden past pains triggering such fear

While not everyone can eventually let go of the fear of death, and not everyone who does takes this exact same path when it comes to letting go of the fear of death, it’s still usually broken down into at least several similar milestones, with each probably taking years to reach, so the whole process can take decades to accomplish, and dark managers, no matter how artificially superior they feel over the others, are normally of little exceptions.

To even have a reasonable chance to really try to let go of dark management, a dark manager at least have to reach the 3rd milestone of the aforementioned path, meaning that he/she needs to try to accept that it’s okay to not always maximizing his/her self interest and it’s also okay to feel internally afraid and vulnerable about this, even though that doesn’t mean he/she has to be open to the others about this side of him/her yet. If he/she was one of the stupidest dark managers, he/she either would have destroyed him/herself before he/she even reached the 3rd milestone, or had so much power to be abused that he/she wouldn’t bother to reach there, so it’s almost impossible for the stupidest dark managers to let go the fear of death.

If he/she was a typical dark manager, by the time he/she reached the 3rd milestone, he/she should become internally stable enough to question his/her compulsion against the fear of death, so he/she will be able and willing to reflect on the room of improvement of his/her dark management practices, and hence realize the possibility and need for him/her to try to be one of the best dark managers, which will cause him/her to further maximize his/her self interests in a more stable manner, due to the fact that unlike typical dark managers, the best ones keep their victims sustainable by aligning their best interests with those of the best dark managers. By the time he/she becomes one of the best dark managers, he/she’ll understand that instead of having to exploit their victims even in ways that those victims want to keep being exploited by him/her, it’ll be even better to genuinely care the self interest of his/her targets, as long as he/she’s absolutely confident that those targets will keep willingly returning even more favor back to him/her, all without him/her having to exploit those targets and thus the need to keep them close to him/her in order to keep brainwashing them, meaning that his/her self interest will be further maximized by having even more targets.

Direct Approach?

If one tries to convince one of the stupidest dark managers to plan on letting go of the fear of death shortly, that dark manager will just think that he/she doesn’t have to let go of something that’s already “defeated” by him/her, as he/she’s in such a denial that he/she insists that he/she’s totally fearless against anything. But as the stupidest dark managers are those having such an immense fear of death that their conscious mind can’t ever let this surface, and it’d hard to stop the compulsion of maximizing their self interests without letting go of such fear, asking them to give up their dark management is like asking them to release what seems to be the only thing that keeps them alive, so those dark managers will have to paradoxically eliminate those asking them such thing to prove that they’ve indeed “defeated” the fear of death, even when their actions clearly shows the completely opposite truth.

If one tries to convince a typical dark manager to plan on letting go of the fear of death shortly, that dark manager, while occasionally admitting to him/herself that he/she does have such a strong fear, will find no reason to listen to that person right now, because his/her dark management has been serving him/her well enough when it comes to maximizing his/her self interest, and it’s just his/her victims but not him/herself that are unsustainable. That means that, on one hand he/she feels barely content with the current way he/she’s countering the fear of death and thus there’s no imminent need to let go of it, and on the other hand he/she’d be afraid to immediately redefine self interest as the number of people who loves his/her true self deeply and how much he/she loves who he/she really is, since he/she’s still far from being able to maximize his/her self interest without harming those of his/her victims, meaning that it’d be hard for him/her to believe that trying to be loved by the others by being true to him/herself won’t get him/her exploited by them as long as he/she knows who he/she should legitimately connect with.

If one tries to convince one of the best dark managers to plan on letting go of the fear of death shortly, that dark manager will seriously consider doing that in the foreseeable future, because he/she’s already able to maximize his/her self interest while also benefiting that of his/her victims, albeit in ways that are still much less than what they deserve, meaning that he/she already understands the immense value of being deeply loved by at least their victims, even though such love is the result of periodic brainwashing by him/her. All he/she needs to overcome is the fear that he/she needs to keep close to his/her victims and periodically brainwash them to ensure that they’ll deeply love him/her and thus keep being willingly exploited by him/her to maximize his/her self interest, and all he/she has to do to overcome this fear is to be absolutely confident that all the targets carefully chosen by him/her will still deeply love him/her and return even greater favor to him/her if he/she chooses not to exploit them but really care their self interests.

Incremental Approach

Therefore, if a society wants dark management to go away altogether, it first needs to accept that dark management isn’t something that can be just thrown away right away, but rather a deeply ingrained practice that will still take a very long time to evolve, so the society, instead of going against the best dark managers, should actually embrace them and their practices, meaning that the society should make those practices the norm before even trying to get rid of dark management at once. Beside merely embracing the best form of dark management, the society should also forcefully encourage and recommend extensive and intensive researches on how to scientifically exploit others so they’ll be highly sustainable and love to be exploited even if they know the truth, so being one of the best dark managers will become easier, simpler and smaller tasks for the rest of the dark managers, causing the damage done to the society from dark management to be less and less severe, since the more negative sides of dark management are being gradually replaced by less and less toxic ones.

Of course, this seems to be immoral or even downright evil, but as many societies are severely contaminated by dark management for far too long, and those societies are mainly controlled by dark managers, it’s hard to just directly remove dark management there since it’s a collection of practices desperately needed by those dark managers, so most of the direct and immediate approach will be probably powerfully countered by them, meaning that such strategies are very likely to fail badly. On the other hand, by trying to “upgrade” the dark management to its best form and showing those dark managers the immense advantages of being the best dark managers, these powerful stakeholders will be much more motivated to do so to further maximize their self interests, and thus benefiting the society by making the victims much less miserable and much more sustainable.

Only when most of the dark managers are used to the best form of dark management, they can begin to perceive the value of being deeply loved by the others without exploiting them, so they’ll finally have reasons to face their fear of death and thus the reward for redefining what their self interest really means. Ultimately, the goal is for those best dark managers, which are now most of the dark managers, to slowly change their goal from hoarding resources for their survival and thus counter the fear of death to be deeply loved by as many people as they still love their true selves, and it’s the moment where the society can finally let go of dark management forever, even though all these ironically mean that the best dark managers are the best friends of the society, and it’s so counter-intuitive that it’d be hard for any society to accept that in the foreseeable future.

Alternatives?

You may say that, instead of going though the lesser evil of the best dark managers, the society can just overthrow those dark managers being deadly parasites to the rest of the people, so this way will be much more moral albeit much more violent as well. But the problem is that, even if those dark managers can be overthrown without creating even greater problems, those filling the upcoming power vacuum will be very prone to eventually be the new dark managers with the same or even worse dark management practices, thus repeating the same vicious history, so trying to just overthrow those dark managers can be much more risky than you think.

It’s because the fear of death not only affects those dark managers, but also just about everyone else, so when someone still not having overcome the fear of death has filled the power vacuum and gained power, he/she’ll have great incentives to maximize his/her self interest to secure his/her position, and thus the associated income of resources countering the fear of death. Then it’d be only natural for him/her to gradually employ more and more dark management practices one at a time unknowingly, so it’s actually very hard for him/her to not become corrupt after several years.

Then how about Anarchism, which will effectively make dark management obsolete and dark managers virtually alienated? Assuming that those supporting Anarchism do have the power to stop governments from continuing to exist around the world, I’d just list some of my more serious doubts about the feasibility of Anarchism in the foreseeable future, even though that doesn’t mean I’m against the very idea itself:

1. Will organized crimes just take over the society trying to run Anarchism when they’re already such great headaches in so many societies having governments that are far from being failed states?
2. How to reliably maintain such complex co-operations involving so many different distinct places among billions of people with each of them having so complicated and convoluted demands that have to be satisfied via highly specialized industries without the existence of centralized governments or similar constructs with strict hierarchies?
3. How to convince most people around the world to support Anarchism when many of them only know the failed cases like failed states but fail to find even just one successful example that has enough reference value to many of the societies still having governments?
4. How to reliably enforce established consensuses and stop individual crimes from being totally out of control when most people still obsessively maximize their self interests defined as hoarding resources that ensure their survival and thus counter the fear of death?
5. How Anarchism can effectively and efficiently deal with devastating and urgent global crises like global warming and pandemics when the entire mankind is virtually decentralized due to the rigorous flatting of the hierarchies among and within such a large number of communes?