Opposing Dark Managers Isn’t Always The Same As Opposing Dark Management

Dark Management
5 min readJun 14, 2018

Let’s say there are 3 groups: Group A, B and C. Initially, group A is much more powerful than group B and C combined, but group A needs to extract values from group B and C in order to survive. While such extractions will induce hatred towards the harvesters, group A can still cause group B and C to fight against each other rather than forming alliance. Here’s how this can be:

  1. Group A needs to manage the expectation of group B and C into thinking that their union will not only be futile when it comes to opposing group A, but will also cause group B and C to face a much, worse fate than what they’ve been already facing. On the other hand, by not opposing group A, group B and C can at least feel that they have a bearable survival.
  2. As group A extracts more and more values from group B and C, the latter will be more scarce resources-wise, so they’ll have to take the needed resources while at the same time being less and less able to do so towards group A. Therefore group B and C can be easily incited covertly by group A, like by implanting uninformed proxies in group B and C, to take resources from each other to ensure their bearable survival. So group B and C will be more and more inclined to fight against each other.
  3. As the fights between group B and C become more and more fierce, the focus of their hatred will gradually shift from group A to each other instead, while at the same time group A will want to appear to be helping them both and cooling down the war. It’s because if the drama becomes too heated for too long, group B and C will eventually lack enough value to be extracted by group A, thus threatening its very survival.
  4. After several decades(even more so if it’s centuries or millennia), most people in group B and C will likely forget why they’ve been fighting against each other to begin with. All they know is to try their best to beat the other side to ensure their survival or avenge for their losses. Some might even think that group A has been helping them all along. When the course of events have come to this, it won’t be hard for group A to twist the history into stating that they’ve the peacemakers protecting group B and C, especially if the former has controlled the flow and interpretation of the public information.

So if we’re to encourage group B and C to fight against group A instead of each other, an obvious way is to launch a false flag campaign against group A to force group B and C to go all out without a doubt. Here’s how this can be:

  1. The very reasons that group B and C have never been opposing group A is that they don’t think they stand a chance while at the same time having something they can’t afford to lose. So to change this state of reality, we can take away their fear by making them to have nothing more to lose while cheating them into thinking that group A is behind this.

2. While most people in group A will likely have insufficient crisis awareness as their plans have been working so well for so long, few will immediately realize that they’re going to face character assassination if they let this continue. Therefore we can’t be figured out before group A becomes weaker than group B and C combined, in which group A can’t really do much even when everyone knows the truth, as group B and C will unite with each other to remove group A first, before resolving their conflicts afterwards.

3. In order to make group B and C to think that group A is behind their sudden severe threat of survival, we can implant unknowing proxies into group A, just like what it has been doing to group B and C. One can also implant such counterparts into group B and C to expose the truth that group A needs to extract values from group B and C in order to survive, so they’ll finally know that group A isn’t as invincible as what they’ve been thinking all along.

4. As long as one isn’t being figured out before the point of no return, one can incite group B and C into thinking that the only chance for them not to perish eventually is to go all out to oppose group A, even if this can mean digging themselves an earlier grave. Group B and C will then likely to choose to fight, as their fear has been removed due to having nothing more to lose.

If we’re just to fight against dark managers in group A, we’ll likely have a reasonable chance to succeed to some extent, provided that we’ve not made any nontrivial mistakes that are not reversed. But if we’re to fight against the dark management imposed by group A to group B and C, we’ll have to do a lot more, as we’ve been using dark management to fight against those dark managers, using the victims in group B and C as sacrifices.

As the aforementioned false flag campaigns will likely take decades to work(just needing years is already an unbelievable miracle), we’ll probably be so used to and relying on dark management that we just won’t function without it. So we first need to be able to operate reasonably again, otherwise we’d just become the new dark managers, hence repeating the history(especially when we know just how successful dark managers can be). Unfortunately, that’s one reason history often repeating itself.

Finally, as both group B and C are also so used to have their resources marauded from group A, they’ll have to face a huge set of huge unknowns the moment they’re free from the dark management imposed by group A. In order to prevent new dark managers from taking over the power vacuum, we can use dark management to suppress them while at the same time being reasonable managers towards the others, meaning that we’ve to be able to simultaneously be dark and reasonable managers while hiding this fact.

To conclude, while fighting against dark management inevitably implies fighting against dark managers, the latter is just the 1st rather than the last step of achieving the former. Those not always realizing this are in great danger of ironically becoming what they’ve been hating the most.

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