The 9 Levels Of Dark Management

Inspired by the levels of development in Enneagram, there might be similar constructs of dark management when it comes to exploiting victims, even though I’ve no evidence to back up this idea at all, and so this is nowhere scientific:

Best Dark Managers

The hallmark of the best dark managers is that both themselves and their targets are highly sustainable, so those managers are both externally and internally stable, especially because they know that it’s their fault when they failed to maximize their best interests, meaning that they won’t futilely blame those targets for that. It’s done by realizing that knowing the limits and motivations of those targets to keep them highly sustainable is the most effective and efficient way to keep maximizing the best interests of those managers, who are gifted and talented enough to keep aligning the best interests of those targets with theirs, all without anyone else figuring out what’s really going on under the hood.

Level of targets with best interests altered

Healthiness of this level

Being the last stage before finally being able to let go of dark management altogether, the best dark managers on this level have thoroughly comprehended the essence behind maximizing their best interests and completely mastered every last bit of dark management.

With such exceptional proficiency, they’re totally capable and confident that they can perfectly align the best interests of at least many of their targets with theirs for at least a very long time, meaning that there’s no need to exploit any target anymore.

To them, now there’s nothing to hide and nobody to be afraid of, since they’ve already transcended dark management to be flawlessly blending with reasonable ones, even though they’re still just sustainably maximizing their best interests by treating their targets as mere tools.

Because of that, those managers are totally stable both externally and internally, causing them to feel fully confident on countering the fear of death and sustaining themselves as well as their targets forever.

Therefore, they’re at last capable of trying to let go of that fear, and thus redefine their best interests to be loved by the others and themselves instead, even though their judgment still doesn’t let them do it yet.

Behaviors of targets

As the best dark managers on this level no longer exploit their targets, those targets now know that those managers care about their best interests and they’re being treated as equals rather than inferior victims, at least in terms of the best interests of both sides.

So, those targets are motivated to keep returning even more favors to those managers who maximize their best interests, and this sustainable positive loop will only strengthen over time, as long as the best interests of both sides are aligned.

Although those targets know that they’re still treated as mere tools to maximize the best interests of those managers, who’ll nicely discard them the moment such mutual benefits become going against that goal, at least such dismissal won’t harm the best interests of those targets, and those managers are so good at maximizing them that it’d be much more advantageous for those targets to maintain this win-win relationship as long as possible.

Rather than insisting that those managers have to treat them as who they really are, those targets accept that the world is still far from ideal enough to take treating others for who they’re as granted, so it’d be very unwise to miss the forest for the trees that way.

In case where those managers do nicely discard those targets, those targets can still understand that no partnership can last forever, and so they’ll just appreciate what all those managers have given to them and then move on.

Behaviors of dark managers

Without having to exploit anyone, the best dark managers on this level are honest and open to their targets that the sustainable win-win relationship is all about mutual benefits, and so those targets are clear that they’re mere tools to maximize the best interests of those managers.

To ensure that those targets will agree to be treated that way, those managers can carefully choose targets, in ways that they can be convinced that those managers can better maximize the best interests of those targets than they do.

Of course, those managers also need those targets to know that, to keep this relationship running, those targets have to return even more favors to those managers, so the best interests of both sides will be maximized.

In case those targets become going against maximizing those managers, those managers can simply discard those targets in ways that don’t hurt the best interests of those targets, and then move on to find new targets.

For targets insisting those managers to treat them as who they really are instead of mere tools, those managers can simply find new targets and move on, because those managers don’t have to worry about not having enough targets anyway.

Core dark management strategy

The best dark managers on this level know that they’ve to keep their targets close to them in order to exploit those targets, and those managers can only keep a limited number of such targets no matter how capable they’re.

So, those managers understand that letting go of that compulsion actually allows them to have much more targets that can help sustainably maximizing their best interests, meaning that this is indeed a far more effective and efficient approach.

Also, as most people do want to sustainably maximize their best interests, those managers can try to form win-win relationships with them, in the ways that simply by maximizing the best interests of those targets will already help maximizing those of those managers.

Therefore, those managers just have to help those targets to sustainably maximize their best interests more effectively and efficiently, in ways that won’t go against maximizing those of those managers, and eventually they can do less and less while gaining more and more.

Hence, there’s no need to treat those targets as who they really are, due to the fact that such mutual benefits alone are enough to cause them to accept that they’re mere tools to those managers, and only a small portion of people will insist that they’ve to be treated as who they really are anyway.

Fear of dark managers

Sometimes, the best dark managers on this level might be afraid that, there will indeed be times where they can’t find enough targets whose best interests can be legitimately aligned with theirs.

Alternatively, those managers might also fear that sometimes too many people will insist that those managers have to treat their targets as who they really are, instead of mere tools for maximizing the best interests of those managers.

So when this happens, those managers will be urged by their imminent fear to go back to sustainably exploit at least some of their targets without anyone else knowing the truth, in order to keep maximizing the best interests of those managers, and using the most sustainable intrinsic motivations is the best way for this.

This is because that’s something that they’re so capable of and used to, while the only other way is to let go of the obsessions of having to maximize their best interests, which demands them to let go of the fear of death, and this is so much more difficult and foreign even to them that it’s only natural for them to pick up the past habits instead.

Fortunately, such fear is extremely unlikely to be strong and remain long even without having to descend into lower levels, because they’re just so good at aligning the best interests of those targets with theirs, and the world’s still so far from ideal that it’s almost impossible for so many people to insist that treating others as who they really are should be taken as granted.

How to ascend

In order to eventually move past dark management, the best dark managers on this level need to let go of the fear of death once and for all, and thus the obsession of maximizing their best interests by hoarding resources for survival to counter the fear of death.

So, they can finally redefine their best interests as THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE DEEPLY LOVING THEIR TRUE SELVES AND HOW MUCH THEY’RE ECSTATIC WITH WHO THEY REALLY ARE, hence reliving the need to treat their targets as mere tools, and thus becoming willing to treat them as who they really are.

Since those managers are already able and willing to resist the compulsion of exploiting their targets to maximize their best interests, and thus genuinely care those of their targets as long as theirs can still be maximized, it’s very likely that those targets will really love those managers for doing so.

Therefore, with enough such targets for long enough time, those managers will at last fathom the truth that, what they really want is to be loved by the others and themselves.

This means that they just have to keep having enough resources for survival rather than hoarding them as much as they can, and their survival should no longer be issues when so many others, as well as themselves, keep loving their true selves so deeply, causing them to have no reason not to let go of the fear of death.

Level of targets with Stockholm syndrome

Healthiness of this level

Because the best dark managers on this level can’t let go of the obsession of having to exploit their victims yet, those managers start to have to keep the dark management in the dark and their true selves hidden, because letting the truth exposed will go against maximizing their best interests.

However, both those managers and their victims are still highly sustainable, since those managers are the elites among elites when it comes to sustainably exploiting their victims, by precisely knowing the limits of those victims and using the best intrinsic motivations possible to deceive them.

To effectively and efficiently use the best intrinsic motivations to exploit those victims, those managers need to utilize the uniqueness of each of those victims to its full potential, but those managers are so good at reading those victims and brainwashing them that such exploitation will almost always succeed for a very long time.

Hence, those managers can manipulate those victims to keep willingly thinking in certain ways, until those victims become unable to think in any other ways if such exploitation lasts long enough, all to ensure that those victims will keep maximizing the best interests of those managers.

Therefore, those managers are still very stable both externally and internally, even in extremely unlikely event that the truth get exposed, due to the fact that at least most of those victims will defend and protect those managers to keep their addiction to the sustainable exploitation.

Behaviors of targets

Although the victims of the best dark managers on this level are constantly working overtime excessively while being consistently underpaid severely, they treat all these deep sufferings as necessary ingredients for their invaluable personal growth, and all the painful exploitation from those managers as rewarding challenges to overcome, so they feel that they’re enjoying the processes as well as the results.

It’s because those victims deeply love their highly sustainable jobs which make them feel that they at last know who they really are, and have finally found their only paths of self-actualization, albeit with the catch that they don’t know they’re just being periodically brainwashed by those managers.

Even if they managed to know the harsh truth, they’ll actually keep lying hard to themselves, and be very afraid of not being continually exploited by those managers, now perceived as indispensable life mentors and caring parents of those victims.

It’s due to the fact that they’ve become far too attached to those managers and addicted on their sustainable exploitation, with the immense fear that they won’t ever be able to feel such a fruitful yet false sense of enlightenment again without this dependency.

So, in extreme cases, they’ll even rigorously defend and protect those corrupt dark managers if the others expose the evil truth of such immoral dark management, causing the others to think that those victims are sadly manifesting the Stockholm syndrome.

Behaviors of dark managers

While the best dark managers on this level appear to care the personal growth, emotional well-being and career development of their victims, those managers actually couldn’t care less about the best interests of those victims.

This means that, such nurturing, no matter how real they feel, are all just great fakes to keep the sustainability of those victims in check, and this sustainability is vital for those managers to sustainably maximize their best interests.

Therefore, they’ll let those victims know what challenges they’ve to face for their personal growth, which obstacles they’ve to overcome for their career development, and how to maintain their emotional well-being by treating their problems as golden chances to help them explore who they really are, even when they don’t know that all those issues are actually just caused by the exploitation from those managers.

Whenever they reached certain significant milestones in the name of their self-actualization but actually just for maximizing the best interests of those managers, they’ll set those victims as highly successful role models for the others to follow, and give various significant rewards, including emotional and tangible ones, to those victims in ways that further boost their intrinsic motivations, even though such rewards combined are still much less than the exploitation from having them constantly work overtime excessively while consistently being underpaid severely.

To further keep the dark management in the dark and the true selves of those managers hidden, those managers also need to pretend to work for the society, at least by making the others think that their best interests are aligned with the public interests.

Core dark management strategy

While the best dark managers on this level can’t let go of the fear of having to exploit their victims in order to maximize their best interests yet, they know that the best way to do so is to keep those victims highly sustainable, and periodically brainwash them about their true selves and their path of enlightenment, thus using their intrinsic motivations to exploit them.

So, they’ll become deeply addicted to the exploitation from those managers without knowing, by deceiving those victims that they’re just willingly working for themselves instead of maximizing the best interests of those managers.

Although it’s better not to let anyone else reveal their dark management, even in extremely rare cases where the truth is exposed, those managers are very confident that those victims will never be willing nor able to become independent from them.

It’s because they’ve been pretending to deeply care about those victims for far too long, and such acting feel so real that no one wants to admit that it’s just a great fake after all, especially when those victims are deeply addicted to such acting.

This means that, just the cognitive dissonance triggered by the sunk cost fallacy of those victims is already enough for them to keep lying hard to themselves when the others tell them the truth, so those victims are effectively cut off from external helps and can only continue to be willingly exploited by those managers.

Fear of dark managers

While the best dark managers on this level are very confident in picking victims that can be convinced to care about their personal growth in ways maximizing the best interests of those managers, they’ll still be afraid that one day they’ll have to exploit those unable or unwilling to just work for themselves, or those who already know who they really are and love their true selves deeply.

Also, in order to exploit victims by deceiving them that they’re working for themselves, those managers first need to be able to utilize the uniqueness of each of those victims to its full potential, and sometimes some victims are so hard to know that even those managers can fail badly.

It’s because no matter how good they’re on brainwashing, they still can’t deceive those victims if the apparent path of self-actualization clearly clashes with each of their uniqueness, either due to them too likely to realize the truth too soon, or too quickly to fail to reach too many milestones in the name of enlightenment.

Needless to say, those managers won’t give up maximizing their best interests just to avoid exploiting those victims, because it’s still too hard for those managers to let go of the need of hoarding resources to counter the fear of death, let alone letting that fear go altogether.

When they fail to exploit those victims that way, it’s unlikely that any other intrinsic motivations can work either, so they’ve to use the most sustainable extrinsic ones instead, and such motivations have to work on all those victims without needing to know each of their uniqueness.

How to ascend

The best dark managers on this level need to know that, having to keep all their victims close to them in order to maintain the brainwashing for exploitation is actually sub-optimal, even when it comes to maximizing their best interests.

This means that those managers should try to carefully choose their targets whose best interests can be aligned with theirs, so they can maximize their best interests by legitimately maximizing those of those targets without exploiting them.

So, those managers can have much more targets that help maximizing their best interests, hence allowing them to let go of the compulsion of exploitation, and thus the fear of having to keep all their victims close to them.

However, that doesn’t mean those managers have to treat those targets as who they really are, because those managers can be honest about still treating those targets as mere tools, without fearing that those carefully chosen targets will go against maximizing the best interests of those managers just because of that.

Besides, this means that those managers don’t have to hide their truth selves nor deep their dark management in the dark, because they’re no longer exploiting anyone else anymore, and all those targets know that it’s just a sustainable win-win relationship all about mutual benefits.

Level of targets with a false sense of purpose

Healthiness of this level

As the best dark managers on this level failed to utilize the uniqueness of each of their victims to its full potential, those managers have to resort to use the best extrinsic motivations as the common ground of all those victims to sustainably exploit them instead.

Since those managers are now using extrinsic instead of intrinsic motivations to exploit those victims, it’s not enough to just deceive those victims to think in certain ways, but they’ve to be also manipulated to act in certain ways, in order to counter the law of diminishing returns applied to those extrinsic motivations as much as possible.

So those managers have more things to hide and more threats to handle, especially when those victims are now less likely to defend and protect those managers that strongly when the truth’s exposed, due to the fact that those victims become not so enjoying the process of being exploited as before.

Because of that, while those managers are still the best dark managers, their dark management is already noticeably more limited than before, even though they’re still externally and internally stable, and both themselves and their victims are still sustainable, since those managers still know the limits of those victims.

Nevertheless, those managers still have a solid understanding on how dark management works in details, and they’re still so proficient in deceiving the others and hiding the truth that they’re confident in their capability on sustainably maximizing their best interests.

Behaviors of targets

Although the victims of the best dark managers on this level are constantly working overtime excessively while being consistently underpaid severely, they’re still deeply attached to the grand visions illustrated by those managers.

It’s because those victims firmly believe that they’re really standing for core values that are much bigger than themselves, so they’re able and willing to become heroic martyrs for their sacred missions to serve the greater goods.

For the same reason, they believe that they’re fighting against some public enemies, and the best interests of those managers are aligned with the public interests, so those victims feel that they’re helping the society in very constructive and beneficial ways.

While those victims don’t enjoy having to keep suffering deeply and feel continually painful during their divine cause, they sincerely believe that it’s all worth it, since they’ve already devoted far too much into this false sense of purpose, and they feel that they’re important and valuable to the society because of that.

So, even when they know that they’re just being sustainably exploited by those managers, as long as those victims don’t know that those managers aren’t even fighting for the society, those victims will still believe that it’s worth sacrificing their best interests for the society, regardless of whether they’re also maximizing the best interests of those managers along the way.

Behaviors of dark managers

The best dark managers on this level will appear to be benefiting and contributing a lot to the society, especially by seeming to be fighting against some public enemies, to deceive their victims into thinking that those managers are serving the greater good.

Whenever those victims reached certain significant milestones in the name of the greater good but actually just for maximizing the best interests of those managers, they’ll give various noticeable rewards, including emotional and tangible ones, to those victims in ways that boost their extrinsic motivations, even though such rewards combined are still much less than the exploitation from having them constantly work overtime excessively while consistently being underpaid severely.

When they deeply suffer from such immense pains, those managers will pretend to be on their sides and support them til the end, while persuading them that such adversities exactly prove that they’re indeed working very hard to fight for something much bigger than them, instead of just working for mere tangible rewards, meaning that they’re becoming more and more honorable and respectable in the society that way.

For those victims really sacrificed themselves as apparently heroic martyrs, those managers can even pretend to be very sad and miss those victims a lot, all the while praising them for all the goods they’ve done and setting them as divine examples for the other victims to admire and follow, even when those managers actually don’t care the best interests of those victims one bit.

Overall, those managers don’t want those victims to think that they’re working under those managers, as it’d be even more advantageous for those managers to be treated as those merely supporting those victims to fight for the public interests, so they’ll feel that they’ve such powerful backups from those managers that those victims can just focus on moving forward.

Core dark management strategy

While the best dark managers on this level aren’t capable enough to portray themselves as life mentors and caring parents of their victims yet, those managers still know that they’ve to keep those victims sustainable to further maximize their best interests.

So, when those managers fail to instill intrinsic motivations to those victims, the most sustainable extrinsic ones should be used instead, and such extrinsic motivations should still work even when the dark management is revealed to be really safe.

The best choices for those managers are some heroic missions that can induce those victims to willingly sacrifice themselves for something seemingly much bigger than them, in ways that they’ll feel important and valuable to the society, while maximizing the best interests of those managers along the way.

Therefore, grand visions and core values are very ideal in luring those victims to have a false sense of purpose, especially when it makes them feel honorable and respectable, while seeming to be aligned with the public interests, as long as those grand visions can resonate with them and those core values are what they want to stand for.

Of course, all these assume that those victims think that those managers are working for the public interest, and this can be done by fighting against real or fake public enemies that are of little match to them, where fake public enemies, although costly and hard to create, can at least be made using character assassinations.

Fear of dark managers

While the best dark managers on this level are confident that at least most of their victims will buy the great lies sold by them for a long time, they’re still afraid that more and more victims might suffer such deep pains that they’ll eventually become more and more indifferent to the apparent sense of purpose.

Similarly, sometimes it’d be hard to find a common ground among so many different victims to exploit them all, and using different extrinsic motivations for different victims can quickly lead to hellish management nightmares, since even those managers can’t be this capable yet.

Alternatively, no matter how great the acting of those managers are, it’s still possible that one day many of those victims will realize that the best interests of those managers aren’t even aligned with the public interests, and those so-called public enemies are actually victims of character assassinations launched by them.

Anyway, when those victims stop fighting for the apparent greater good, it’d be hard for those managers to find any other extrinsic motivations that can keep exploiting those victims for their best interests, let alone keeping those victims sustainable.

So, they’ll fear that just showing those victims bigger and bigger carrots won’t be enough to keep exploiting them, and sometimes elusive sticks will also be really needed to covertly control them, even though sticks will threaten their sustainability and thus create instability.

How to ascend

The best dark managers on this level need to know that, while using grand visions and core values are often good enough to sustainably deceive their victims, it’d be even better to utilize the uniqueness of each of those victims to its full potential, in order to sustainably brainwash all those victims more effectively and efficiently.

The goal should be to make them think that those managers are their life mentors and caring parents, and they’re just working for themselves, causing their motivation to become intrinsic, even when they’re just being sustainably exploited by those managers to maximize their best interests.

It’s because while a false sense of purpose is already a very powerful motivation that can last really long, it’s still just extrinsic rather than intrinsic, meaning that the law of diminishing returns does apply when those victims devote in their divine missions.

Therefore, using external carrots like this alone can rarely last forever, even though it’s already much more sustainable than just about any other extrinsic motivation.

Of course, those managers can try to use a new false sense of purpose to replace the old one that no longer works, but it’s still much less effective and efficient than avoiding the law of diminishing returns in the first place.

Typical Dark Managers

The hallmark of the typical dark managers is that, their victims aren’t sustainable but those managers are, as long as they can keep finding new victims without anyone knowing that they’re the culprits, so they appear to be stable outside but are actually unstable inside, since those managers will unconsciously blame their victims for not maximizing their best interests more and more frequently. The typical dark managers sustain themselves by using gaslighting and negative emotions to cloud the judgment of those victims, so they’ll feel that they’ve to fulfill responsibilities that subtly benefit those managers, and it’s their fault if they failed to do so, without fathoming the truth that it’s those managers who are exploiting them, even though they can barely feel that they might be exploited by someone.

Level of victims clouded by obligation

Healthiness of this level

Because the typical dark managers on this level failed to even use extrinsic motivations to exploit their victims, it’s unlikely that those managers can cloud those victims into any sort of positive emotions, so using carrots alone probably won’t work anymore.

Thus, elusive sticks will have to be used, causing those victims to start to be unsustainable, even though carrots are still used to compensate such damages to make them less and less unsustainable, in order to hope that the situation will still look like decent.

Therefore, the primary goal of those managers changes from keeping those victims sustainable as well to just keeping themselves sustainable, meaning that those managers will have to periodically seek for newcomers as new victims just to compensate the damages done to the old ones.

This causes the dark management to begin to be significantly toxic and those managers to start to be internally unstable, even though they still appear to be externally stable and the toxicity is still under control, all to keep the dark management in the dark and their true selves hidden.

As those managers now idealizes the absence of negative emotions in the forms of professionalism and rationality, to control the toxicity of dark management and lessen the damages done to the sustainability of those victims, those managers are also being less and less connected with the motivations of those victims, let alone using those motivations to exploit them sustainably, so those managers will unintentionally value less and less about being conscious with those motivations, and thus the dark management will become unknowingly more and more running on auto-pilot.

Behaviors of targets

The victims of the typical dark managers on this level, who are constantly working overtime excessively while being consistently underpaid severely, will start to feel more and more obliged for more and more tasks, including those not being their duties to begin with, since they want to be as moral as they can.

It’s because to them, someone has to be obliged for those tasks, and they fail to find anyone else who could be obliged for them, due to the fact that they don’t know that it’s those managers who have been gradually throwing more and more obligations to them, with those obligations slowly becoming more and more unreasonable.

While they’re willing to go for the extra miles as they want to be reasonable, reliable and responsible, eventually they’ll feel obliged for so many things that they just can’t fulfill them all in time, let alone doing so sustainably, regardless of just how much they want to get things done well effectively and efficiently.

So, they’ll think that it’s their fault for being not capable, competent and confident enough, thus feeling guilty even when nobody blames them, since they fail to find anyone else who could be held accountable, even when it’s clear that someone has to take the blame.

While they can’t stop the occasional weak doubts that they might be exploited by someone without knowing who that someone is, because those managers appear to maintain their professionalism, it’d be irrational to point fingers to them, at least not without concrete evidences, so those victims will rarely suspect that those managers could be the culprits, and thus feel violating their obligations if they just leave those managers, while thinking that the situation is still manageable enough for them to not have the need of external helps yet.

Behaviors of dark managers

As the typical dark managers on this level want to trap their victims into the forced abilities of being capable, competent and confident, along with the forced attitudes of being reasonable, reliable and responsible, those managers will try very hard to portray themselves as highly successful role models of such images, while pretending to be purely rational being that always sticks to professionalism by appearing to always get things done well effectively and efficiently.

They’ll, with almost no exceptions, give various minor rewards, including emotional and tangible ones, to those victims every time they meet all the expectations, even when they deserve much more than those, so those victims will remain motivated to feel obliged for more and more tasks, including those not being their duties to begin with.

For victims failing to meet all the expectations, instead of blaming or even punishing them unless absolutely necessary, those managers will just rationally explain the effects of such failures, neutrally analyze how those victims failed to do so, proper ways for them to correct the current mistakes, and constructively suggest what can be done for them to stop failing again, all to make them feel that, even though it’s their fault, it’s still nothing personal and all those managers want are to help those victims maintain professionalism, by pointing out all the facts while trying to forgive them as much as appropriate.

For those victims far from being capable, competent and confident enough to maximize the best interests of those managers, they’ll arrange courses, seminars, and training dedicated to improve the abilities of those victims, to make them feel that it’s really their fault, all the while pretending to remain passionate and positive towards them.

For those victims far from being reasonable, reliable and responsible enough to maximize the best interests of those managers, they’ll pretend that they don’t want to but have to consider making the hard decisions to ask those victims to be out in nice ways, to make them feel that it’s really their fault and have to correct their attitudes before it’s too late, since they still feel obliged to work for those managers.

Core dark management strategy

Because the typical dark managers on this level fail to induce their victims to willingly work for something that unknowingly maximize the best interests of those managers, they’ve to make those victims feel that they’ve to do so regardless of whether they want to.

This means that, those managers use seemingly justified obligations as sticks to push those victims forward, and various minor rewards as carrots to keep those victims motivated, and so sticks become the primary means of the dark management, while carrots are now just auxiliary.

Because the sustainability of those victims comes from carrots and is damaged by sticks, it’s very hard to ensure the sustainability of all those victims when the power of sticks is now greater than that of carrots, but using bigger carrots would waste resources and thus go against maximizing those best interests of those managers.

So, all those managers can do is to use the least damaging and most elusive sticks they can use, and thus obligation rather than even more negative emotions is chosen, to minimize the number of unsustainable victims and maximize their time before they become used-up goners, by idealizing the absence of negative emotions in the forms of professionalism and rationality.

To further maximize the best interests of those managers, they’ll test the limits of those victims by incrementally throwing more and more tasks to them, so those managers can keep exploiting those victims to their limits, while using the desires of those victims to prove their integrity and morality to the others to keep them from leaving those managers.

Fear of dark managers

When more and more of the victims of the typical dark managers on this level slowly refuse to fulfill more and more tasks not being the duties of those victims to begin with, the effects of obligations as sticks will gradually become smaller and smaller, especially when they’re far from being their limits of being exploited.

Alternatively, it’s possible that more and more of those victims will realize that more and more tasks being thrown to them aren’t their duties to begin with, causing the obligations as sticks to be no longer elusive, even though they still don’t know who’re using the sticks.

Anyway, if this continues, those managers will eventually fail to exploit those victims primarily through obligation, and thus not maximizing the best interests of those managers, regardless of how moral those victims want to be.

Instead of reflecting on the ineffectiveness and inefficiency of using sticks, those managers will be harder and harder to resist the urge of using even more negative emotions as sticks, even if this will further damage the sustainability of those victims.

With the fact that using obligations as sticks can already make some of those victims slightly unsustainable, those managers are now in the false dilemma between stabilizing the dark management by making more of those victims more sustainable to reduce the pressure of having to find more and more new victims, and maximizing the best interests of those managers as long as they’re still sustainable, so their internal instability increases due to not being able to see past this false dilemma.

How to ascend

The typical managers on this level need to understand that carrots are much better than sticks when trying to sustainably exploit their victims, and learn how to just use carrots while avoiding the use of sticks altogether.

This means that, those managers have to study the motivations behind those victims, instead of just forcing them to be purely rational beings that will try their best to stick to professionalism and fulfill any duty they feel obliged to.

Only when those managers know how to exploit the common ground beneath the motivations behind all those victims, those managers can choose carrots that will induce all those victims to be willingly exploited by them.

That’s the only way to reliably maximize their best interests while keeping all those victims sustainable, even though it means those managers have to try a lot harder in improving the dark management.

For them to start using carrots only but not sticks a well, grand visions and core values are good first tries to induce those victims to have a false sense of purpose as their extrinsic motivation, and this shouldn’t be too difficult if those managers can pretend to work for the public interests while still maximizing their best interests.

Level of victims clouded by guilt

Healthiness of this level

When the typical dark managers on this level failed to use obligations to cloud the judgment of their victims, it means just using professionalism and rationality can no longer exploit them enough to maximize the best interests of those managers, so even more negative emotions as sticks will have to be used.

But as such new sticks will make those victims even more unsustainable, those managers can’t stop to afraid of not having enough victims to keep maximizing their best interests, and this can even end up threatening their sustainability if there are too few victims left to exploit.

At this point, it becomes almost impossible for those managers to be proactive on keeping those victims from being used-up goners, so those managers can only be reactive when they’ve to find newcomers as new victims more aggressively, causing those managers to become even more internally unstable than before.

So, the conflicts between maximizing the best interests of those managers and keeping those victims sustainable become intense, and the balance among this actually false dilemma are now rather hard to maintain, so those managers are slowly more and more anxious, exhausted and stressed.

Therefore, this is the level where the toxicity of the dark management used by those managers gradually become out of control and noticeable by those victims, and this is the level where those managers begin to be harder and harder to keep appearing to be externally stable, because those managers start to lose sight on how to sustainably maximize their best interests, and unaware of the mistakes they’re making in dark management.

Behaviors of targets

As the victims of the typical dark managers on this level refuse to fulfill more and more tasks, including those not being their duties to begin with, they feel more and more guilty about seemingly being unreasonable, unreliable and irresponsible, since they still want to be rational beings sticking to professionalism, even when they’re constantly working overtime excessively while being underpaid severely.

It’s because they still feel that they’re obliged to do so without knowing that many of those responsibilities are unreasonably thrown to them by those managers, but those victims really are unable to take such heavy burdens, let alone in sustainable manners, so they feel ashamed of their apparent lack of capabilities, competence and confidence.

Now, no matter how much they want to be devoid of negative emotions, they just can’t escape their feel of guilt, especially when those managers are now instilling more and guilt into those targets whenever they failed to meet all the expectations.

Therefore, whenever they failed to fulfill tasks regardless of whether they’re their duties to begin with, those victims will become more and more guilt-tripped, and eventually they’ll feel so guilty and ashamed that they’ll begin to afraid that they’re dragging the others down and will be punished by them, due to the fact that more and more of the others have to clean up larger and larger messes apparently caused by those victims.

At this point, it becomes obvious to those victims that the whole situation is undoubtedly toxic, and now they seriously suspect that they’re probably being exploited by someone without knowing who that someone is, but they still feel guilty about all this, because they think that they’re the reasons of the toxic situation, and they feel that they’re likely being exploited as justifiable retaliations from those having to clean up the messes seemingly caused by those victims, so with an apparently unending amount of messes to be cleaned up by them and new responsibilities for them to fulfill, they’ll feel even more guilty if they just leave those managers or seek for external helps, even if bearing all these alone without leaving can cause them to feel even more trapped, eventually facing mental breakdown and becoming used-up goners.

Behaviors of dark managers

While the typical dark managers on this level will still portray themselves as role models of professionalism by pretending to be rational beings who are capable, competent and confident when it comes to abilities, and reasonable, reliable and responsible when it comes to attitudes, those managers will still sometimes intentionally show their deeply painful sufferings seemingly as the costs of cleaning up the messes apparently caused by their victims.

On one hand, this act can further indirectly instill guilt into those victims without being harsh to them, and on the other hand it can also let those managers relive at least some of their ever increasing amount of anxiety, exhaustion and stress, before those managers become too internally unstable to maintain their external stability.

When the victims of the those managers failed to fulfill some tasks on time, those managers can pretend to resist the immense urge of blaming and punishing those victims on one hand, but covertly emphasize that their failures on meeting all the expectations have caused so many others so many troubles that many of the innocent have to clean up the messes for them, all to ensure that they’ll still think that those managers are on their side.

So, while those managers can still act like they’re trying very hard to help those victims without being unfair to the others, those victims will feel so guilt-tripped that they’ve to push themselves way beyond their sustainable limits for a long time no matter what, in order to avoid the fear that those cleaning up the messes will eventually punish them for their apparent faults.

When they managed to meet all the expectations, including the unreasonable ones forced by those managers, they can intermittently give them various minor rewards for affirming the hard work of those victims in cleaning up the messes that actually have nothing to do with them, all to delay their inevitable mental breakdown as much as possible, with the catch that always keeping them sustainable is nearly impossible at this stage of dark management.

Core dark management strategy

As the typical dark managers on this level fail to use reason, reliability nor responsibilities to exploit their victims, it’s unlikely that those victims can keep being forced to be purely rational beings all about fulfilling tasks and sticking to professionalism, regardless of whether they’re capable, competent or confident enough.

So, even stronger and more negative emotions as new sticks have to be used to keep exploiting them to maximize the best interests of those managers, even when that will cause those victims to be even more unsustainable.

This means that, those managers have no choice but to give up on ensuring the sustainability of those victims, thus the value of carrots for compensating the damages done by the sticks and lower the number of unsustainable victims are largely diminished.

Hence, there’s no reason to still always use carrots, when they can be just used intermittently to delay the inevitable for victims about to be used up, otherwise wasting resources to keep using carrots more than necessary will go against maximizing the best interests of those managers.

Since strong negative emotions can’t just come out of thin air, and it takes too much time to artificially implant ones into them from nothing, those managers can only make use of what already exists within those victims, and in the current case it’s none other than guilt from feeling that not all seemingly necessary expectations are met, meaning that it’s only natural for those managers to elusively instill guilt into those victims.

Fear of dark managers

When the victims of the typical dark managers on this level feel too guilty for just about anything that seems to be their fault, instilling guilt to them will paradoxically become less and less effective and efficient.

It’s because, at that point, instilling any further guilt into them is no different than pouring a small cup of water into the gigantic ocean, meaning that it’s the law of diminishing returns that causes instilling guilt to eventually become useless.

Also, when they’re so clouded by guilt without seeming to have any way to correct their apparent mistakes, their guilt will subtly shifts from feeling that so many things are their fault, to they’re personally faulty and their existences are already mistakes, meaning that they’ll become more and more ashamed of themselves.

Combined with the fact that they’re more and more afraid to be punished by those having to clean up messes that seem to be caused by them, they’ll be even more and more afraid of making any further mistakes, so they’ll be so hesitant to take any tasks that they’re becoming more and more useless to those managers.

Needless to say, this is really bad for those managers, so they’ve every right to be rather afraid of this disturbing trend, meaning that they feel justified to be desperate on using the strongest and most negative emotions as the new sticks to force those useless victims to become useful again, and such strong negative emotions have to be triggered when they don’t do anything as well as making any further mistakes, otherwise they’d continue to try to do as little as possible.

How to ascend

First, the typical dark managers on this level need to realize that they need to ascend to higher levels before the situation becomes too toxic for them to control well, meaning that they’ve to understand just how unsustainable their victims have already become.

Then, instead of continuing to instill even more guilt to those victims, those managers should give those victims ways to right their apparent wrongs and relieve their sense of guilt, in ways maximizing the best interests of those managers, because now the problem isn’t having not enough guilt instilled into those victims, but rather the opposite.

But in order to let them right their wrongs, those managers need to stop throwing any tasks that can be forced into those victims for a while, because the root cause of the current situation is precisely due to those managers not taking the sustainability of those victims into account.

So, whenever the primary negative emotion clouding victims changes from obligations to guilt, it means that those managers have exploited such victims way past their sustainable limits, and this is where those managers have to stop if they really want themselves to be sustainable and stable, as well as keeping the toxicity of dark management under control.

Only when that primary emotion changes back to obligations, those managers can reconsider throwing more and more tasks to such victims, causing those managers to have to periodically adjust their core dark management strategies, until the precise limits of such victims are found, all to sustainably maximize the best interests of those managers.

Level of victims clouded by fear

Healthiness of this level

When the typical dark managers on this level failed to use even such strong negative emotions like guilt to exploit their targets, those managers will start to feel desperate on maximizing their best interests, because now they think they’ll have to use the strongest and most negative emotions in their victims as the new sticks, without realizing that it’s the addictions to using sticks that cause those managers to have such a false sense of entitlement on punishing those victims.

However, this overcompensation will cause the sticks to become so damaging on the sustainability of those victims that it’ll become mutually exclusive with maximizing the best interests of those managers, regardless of whether carrots are used, meaning that those victims will be hopeless anyway and so it’d be pointless to use carrots at this point.

This poses very serious conflicts on those managers, because on one hand they need those victims to maximize their best interests, but on the other hand what they’re doing to those victims are no different than treating them as enemies, so those managers have no way to resolve this false dilemma, and this despair will cause them to believe that they’ve to put those victims down to maximize their best interests if this continues.

Because of that, those managers are so internally unstable that they feel being numb and at the edge of losing self control, and the need for them to keep appearing to be still externally stable only makes them even much more anxious, exhausted and stressed, since their external images and internal states finally become complete opposites, causing their feelings and thinking to become more and more black and white.

So, no matter how hard those managers try to keep such a chaotic dark management in the dark, it’s already so extreme and toxic that it’s impossible for those victims to pretend that it’s not, and no matter how hard those managers try to keep their true selves hidden, they’re already so dependent on punishing those victims that it’s impossible for them to not be subconsciously afraid of those managers to the extreme, no matter how much those managers artificially inflate their importance to those victims.

Behaviors of targets

As the typical dark managers on this level start to punish their victims for their avoidance of fulfilling tasks, creations of mistakes and inability of cleaning up the messes, those victims will feel more and more strongly that they really have no place to hide and nowhere to run, meaning that they’re afraid that they’ll be punished no matter what they do or don’t do, and they’re so afraid of those punishments that they’ll become more and more defensive to ensure that they won’t be punished.

To them, the best way to ensure that they won’t be punished is to find someone else to take the blames for them, so they’ll start to deflect their real responsibilities, forcing others to clean up messes that are really caused by them, and even find scapegoats out of nowhere when they’re afraid that they’ll be punished otherwise, so those victims suddenly become more and more offensive towards each other.

Of course, the others won’t just take all those blames that actually have nothing to do with them, so they’ll counter such defensiveness, causing those victims to think that the others are getting in their ways of escaping from otherwise inescapable and unbearable punishments, so they begin to become more and more angry towards the others, and eventually treat them as enemies.

Alternatively, there will be times where those victims will become the ones taking the blames for the others, and this will only make those victims even more defensive and counter even more fiercely, while being more and more angry towards the others for treating them so unfairly, and thus treating them as enemies.

If this continues, those victims, being more and more self-centered, will feel that there are more and more enemies, so they don’t know who can be trusted anymore, and the real horror is that, they’re afraid that one day those being on their sides will suddenly be backstabbing them, therefore those victims fear that they won’t last long under such insane and obvious toxicity, with the only escape being to find who’re the ones exploiting them before they face mental breakdown and become used-up goners, because they’re afraid that just leaving those managers will cause them to face character assassination and unjust blacklists that can ruin their professions or even careers as retaliations, even when those victims are so constantly working overtime excessively while being underpaid severely that they really want to just leave.

Behaviors of dark managers

When the victims of the typical dark managers on this level become more and more useless to those managers, those managers will start to look for excuses and lies to punish them more and more heavily to induce greater and greater fear, thus stopping those victims from thinking that they can be safe just by doing as little as possible, to avoid making mistakes and thus punishments.

Of course, those managers don’t want their victims to think that they just want to punish the others, so those managers will emphasize that they don’t want to punish anyone but really have to punish those victims, in order to be fair to the others and set examples to prevent misbehavior from spreading like wildfire.

To justify heavier and heavier punishments over time, those managers can exaggerate the severity of such behavior, the speed of such behavior to spread if not punished heavily, and that the current punishments are already very light compared to even heavier punishments.

Although those managers can just use character assassination to those victims pointing fingers to them, those managers can also try to find scapegoats, perhaps even using character assassination, to take the blames for them before that happens, with the bonus that those victims will believe that those managers are still on their side, by severely punishing those seeming to be the ones causing troubles.

To avoid those victims from uniting against those managers, those managers can also establish formal reporting channels for misbehavior among those victims, causing those victims to be more and more induced to report each other, and thus they’ll be afraid of not just those punishments, but also each other, causing their anger to work against each other instead of those managers.

Core dark management strategy

When the typical dark managers on this level fail to use guilt as the sticks to push their victims into maximizing their best interests, those managers will think that it’s because the strongest and most negative emotions available as new sticks are needed, since there’s not much time left before too many of those victims become useless.

Because those managers have no time to implant negative emotions from nothing into their victims, those managers have to use the strongest and most negative emotions already present in those victims, and now it’s the fear that those victims will be punished by those having to clean up the messes that seem to be caused by them.

As such fear are based on the anticipations of punishments, those managers may as well just really punish those victims once in a while, so whenever those victims think that they’re likely to be punished by those managers, fear will already be forced into those victims, even without those managers actually punishing those victims all the time.

When those victims become more and more angry from the actions of others due to the defensiveness out of fear, those managers must do whatever it takes to stop anger from being the primary negative emotions clouding those victims, so those managers must redirect the anger of those victims to work against each other, as well as using Gaslighting to downplay the anger of those victims, or even sticks as powerful as fear will eventually be useless.

Also, since those managers need to periodically find scapegoats to protect themselves, they also need to be very aggressive on find newcomers to exploit, to prevent not having enough victims to even just sustain those managers, let alone maximizing their best interests.

Fear of dark managers

First, the typical managers on this level are afraid that their victims will be so unsustainable that those managers will fail to find enough newcomers to replace those victims, causing those managers to have not enough victims to even just sustain themselves.

Second, those managers are afraid that they’ll eventually fail to find scapegoats that can shield those managers from taking the blames for their victims, and this can even risk revealing the full toxicity behind the dark management and exposing who those managers really are, especially when the primary negative emotions of those victims change from fear to anger.

Third, those managers are afraid that as their victims become more and more defensive and angry, the backstabbing among them will become more and more dangerous, causing those managers to be harder and harder to control the situations, which will eventually lead to total chaos if the trend’s not stopped, since it’s all too easy for anger to spread like wildfire.

Fourth, those managers are afraid that they’re so anxious, exhausted and stressed that they’ll one day fail to control themselves and keep externally stable when they’re that internally unstable, and being externally unstable as well will surely expose their true selves in front of those victims, which can cause those managers to suddenly run out of defenses and become very vulnerable.

If these fears ever become the reality, those managers won’t be able to cloud the judgment of those victims with negative emotions anymore, since by then everything will already be clear as day but in total chaos that are very hard to control anymore, and “might makes right” backed by ruthless strong wills will become all those managers can do as desperate attempts to try to protect themselves.

How to ascend

The key is that, the typical dark managers on this level need to know that THIS IS A GREAT RED FLAG AND THE SITUATION IS ALREADY CRITICAL, because the dark management will absolutely be revealed and their true selves will surely be exposed if this continues, causing them to eventually fail to sustain themselves.

The root cause of all the uncontrolled toxicity is that, fear shouldn’t be used as sticks to begin with, as fear will lead to defensiveness and thus anger, which will lead to even more fear for even more people, meaning that this vicious cycle will soon spread fear, defensiveness and anger like wildfire, and trying to control such chaos is next to impossible, unless it’s stopped early.

The very reason that those managers are induced to use fear as the new sticks is that, their victims are so guilt-tripped that they’re afraid that they’ll be punished by those having to clean up messes seemingly caused by them, causing them to avoid as many responsibilities and thus chances to make mistakes as possible, meaning that they become less and less useful to those managers.

However, the solution isn’t to replace guilt with fear to force those victims to become useful to those managers again, but rather not instilling further guilt to them and give them assurance that they won’t be punished unless absolutely necessary, so they’ll at least be willing to continue to try becoming useful again.

Whenever a victim starts to be very afraid that he/she’ll be punished by those having to clean up messes seemingly caused by him/her, it means that those managers have already instilled too much guilt to him/her, so they need to stop doing this before his/her primary emotion changes from guilt to fear.

Stupidest Dark Managers

The hallmark of the stupidest dark managers is that, both themselves and their victims aren’t sustainable, as the only way for those managers to protect themselves is to keep heavily abusing their predatory power unjustly, so those managers are both externally and internally unstable. Unless those managers have so much such power that they really can’t be stopped, they’ll soon become goners even when that can sometimes mean dragging some of their victims to their ends as well, especially when those managers take maximizing their best interests as granted without really knowing what they’re truly doing, and become more and more fixated on their false sense of power.

Level of managers with extreme emotional/verbal abuse/violence

Healthiness of this level

At this point, even using the strongest and most negative emotions as sticks won’t work anymore, plus with the fact that the dark management is totally revealed and the true selves of the stupidest dark managers on this level completely exposed, those managers are now running out of ways to exploit their victims.

Also, it’s too late to use carrots now, because their victims finally know just how damaging those managers are to them and just how toxic the dark management is, so what those victims demand are retributions that are legal, and no amount of carrots can change that, especially when those managers now think that those victims have been abusing those carrots for far too long anyway.

But that doesn’t mean those managers will accept defeat, because they’re still extremely obsessed in maximizing their best interests, and they’re afraid that they’ll be destroyed if they accept defeat or even just apologize to those victims, so their immense fear of death won’t allow them to just surrender.

While those managers will still try to use excuses and lies as last attempts to force those victims to play along with their heavy yet unjust and barely legal predatory power abuses to maximize their best interests, those excuses and lies are often so unintentionally obvious that they’ll often fail, so those managers will then resort to “might makes right”, which isn’t relied on before, and they’re now desperate enough to violate their past images used to deceive those victims, so those managers will be more and more overindulged in their strength and wills over time.

Although they’re not far-fetched enough to cross the legal lines, they’re still very desperate, stupid and unstable, and the dark management is still very chaotic, extreme and toxic, so it’s impossible to control themselves or the situation anymore, especially when they feel that they’re the victims due to those victims betraying and violating them, even when the fact is the other way around.

Behaviors of targets

With the dark management revealed, the toxicity disclosed, the truth exposed, and the true selves of the stupidest managers on this level in front of all their victims, those victims feel deeply betrayed and brutally violated by those managers.

Because of that, those victims feel extremely angry towards those managers, and demand retributions against those managers to compensate all those damage done to those victims, as long as those retributions are still legal, regardless of how many excuses and lies are used by those managers, especially when they’re too unintentionally obvious to even play along with anyway, and when the underlying predatory power abuses are so heavy and unjust, all just to maximize the best interests of those managers.

However, because of the extreme emotional/verbal abuse/violence from those managers to those victims when those victims don’t play along with those excuses and lies, those victims are still extremely afraid of those managers, especially when those managers are so extremely unstable that the legal lines seem to be the only things that hold them back.

So now it’s those victims who are in serious conflicts, because on one hand their immense anger towards those managers doesn’t allow them to just forgive those managers, but on the other hand their immense fear of those managers doesn’t allow them to actually retaliate legally either, and such conflicts cause those victims to suffer so deeply that it’s hard for them to not face mental breakdown if this continues.

To those victims, it’s a very unfair battle, because they’re unwilling to play along with those excuses and lies yet also unwilling to sink as low as those managers, but without being that low it’s really hard to legally stop those managers, so they’ve no choice but to endure all those immensely painful sufferings, especially when those managers will use extreme emotional/verbal abuse/violence to isolate those victims from external helps as well, all in the hope that one day those managers will destroy themselves before those victims face mental breakdown.

Behaviors of dark managers

At this point, the stupidest dark managers on this level always directly demand immediately absolute submissions from all of their victims to completely control them forever, and any resistance, especially in the form of not playing along with the excuses and lies for their predatory power abuses to maximize their best interests, will be faced with extreme emotional/verbal abuse/violence that are still barely legal, so those victims will be forced to submit in front of such ruthless strong wills, which are backed by extreme instability of those managers.

Now they won’t reward those victims for anything regardless of whether they play along with those excuses and lies or not, because those managers fully take total obedience as granted, and will severely punish them for anything seeming to indicate even a slight loss of control from those managers for even just a moment, meaning that there are no more even fake humanity nor reason when those victims don’t play along with those excuses and lies.

With the legal lines being the only things that hold back those managers, they will do tons of barely legal but still extremely insane stuffs that their victims won’t do, so overtime those managers will feel that they’re extremely strong while those victims are extremely weak, thus pretending that they’ve got dark management all figured out when they don’t even get the basics right.

Therefore, the more externally and internally unstable those managers are, the more they believe in “might makes right” when their excuses and lies fail, even though their might is manifested as extreme emotional/verbal abuse/violence instead of physical ones, at least not yet.

If this continues, those managers will eventually feel unstoppable and have the balls to fully cross anything other than the legal lines, with the desperate hope that the situation will still be under their extremely tight control, even though they’re already anxious, exhausted and stressed to the extreme.

Core dark management strategy

Because now everyone knows what’s really going on, suddenly tons of choices disappear for the stupidest dark managers on this level, and all they can choose, after failing to use excuses and lies to force their victims to play along with, are direct and forceful means, meaning that strength rather than deception has become the primary power of those managers.

Therefore, absolute might is the last thing those managers can rely, and so “might makes right”, backed by their ruthless strong wills and extreme instability both externally and internally, will become the basis of all their actions towards those victims.

However, those managers still know that manifesting their might as the balls to cross the legal lines will only get them destroyed in no time, so they’ll instead choose to manifest their might through extreme emotional/verbal abuse/violence that are still barely legal, causing their victims will be so mentally shocked and suppressed that they’ll become psychologically defenseless against the abuses from those managers.

Hence, those managers will want those victims to believe that, they should better play along with those excuses and lies used by those managers no matter how unintentionally obvious they’re and no matter how heavy and unjust the underlying predatory power abuses are, or else those victims will have to face extreme emotional/verbal abuse/violence backed by ruthless strong wills, which are even much worse.

The point is to make those victims know that, on one hand using humanity and reasons are useless against those managers, but on the other hand using immoral and uncivil means will either cross the legal lines or surely lose to those managers badly, so those victims will still be forced to submit at the end.

Fear of dark managers

The problem of solely relying on emotional/verbal abuse/violence is that, no matter how hard those managers try not to use the exact same form of such abuses over and over again, the law of diminishing returns will still quickly turn this manifestation of “might makes right” from insanely powerful to nearly useless, regardless of how externally and internally unstable the stupidest dark managers on this level are, and how ruthlessly strong their wills are.

While their victims will the mentally shocked and suppressed into total submissions at first, soon they’ll get more and more used to such forced might, and eventually they’ll have enough courage to overcome their fear and fight back even more fiercely, and this can happen long before those victims have faced mental breakdown.

Because the goal of those managers is to absolutely control their victims in order to prevent being defeated, when those victims start to fight back, those managers will feel that things are even more out of control than before, and thus their fear of death will be even more immense.

However, because they can no longer continue to just use extreme emotional/verbal abuse/violence backed by ruthless strong wills to force those victims to submit, those managers will become harder and harder to resist the temptation to stop caring about the legal lines altogether.

Now those managers are trapped into the toughest conflicts they’ve ever faced, because on one hand the situation will eventually become total chaos if they insist not to cross the legal lines, but on the other hand crossing them can lead to even sooner and more tragic self-destruction, so those managers have almost no place to hide and nowhere to run from all their troubles, and it seems to them that there’s really not much they can do anymore, even though they still won’t surrender no matter what.

How to ascend

The stupidest dark managers on this level first need to take this VERY SERIOUSLY:

THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE LAST CHANCE FOR THEM TO SAVE THEMSELVES WITHOUT POWERFUL EXTERNAL HELPS, AS THEY’RE ABOUT TO REACH THE POINT OF NO RETURN.

Then those managers need to immediately man up and seriously apologize to all those victims for all the damages done, and hefty compensations will have to be instantly given to those victims as well, all in the hope for them to stop continuing their legal retributions against those managers, then start forgiving those managers and eventually believing them again.

If those managers can’t sincerely feel guilty of what they’ve done and sorry for those victims, those managers can at least pretend to be that authentic and act like that they’ll never exploit anyone else ever again, otherwise they’ll only make themselves more and more cornered than ever.

By convincing those victims that those managers are genuine regardless of whether it’s actually just a great fake, those victims can try to give those managers one last chance, by thinking that everyone will be prone to using extreme emotional/verbal abuse/violence at least once.

Finally, those managers need to seriously reflect on what exactly causes them to be this desperate, stupid and unstable, and realize that THEY’VE ONLY A SINGLE CHANCE TO RIGHT THEIR WRONGS, meaning that they’ll become beyond redemption if they ever drop into this level again.

Level of managers with probably illegal threats

Healthiness of this level

When the stupidest dark managers on this level failed to use extreme emotional/verbal abuse/violence backed by ruthless strong wills to force their victims into submissions, those managers will become so anxious, exhausted and stressed that they’ll finally start to be more and more delusional.

Even when the truth is that they’ve totally lost the ability of self control, they’ll still be delusional enough to think that they don’t need self control which just holds them back, as they believe that they’re already strong enough to just own any weakling who can be violently threatened by them.

Because of that, now they’re at last far-fetched enough to think that it’s all about the strong dominating the weak, meaning that to them humanity and reasons are just excuses and lies for weaklings, whereas threats and violence are what make them strong.

To prove that they’re indeed that strong, they’ll manifest their compulsion of maximizing their best interests by violently threatening any weakling within their reach, regardless of whether doing so will actually maximize their best interests.

However, the truth is, they’re already being so tightly cornered that they’ve next to nothing to lose anymore, so they feel entitled to just do whatever they want to whoever weak they want, and have to lie to themselves that they’ve finally “defeated” the fear of death due to them being that strong, when they’re in fact so paranoid about having to surrender that being so delusional is their only way out.

Behaviors of targets

Just when the victims of the stupidest dark managers on this level finally have the courage to fight against those managers despite their extreme emotional/verbal abuse/violence backed by ruthless strong wills, those victims suddenly have to face violent threats, which are something even much worse than before.

Normally, those victims would just think that all those are mere empty bluffs, but when those managers are so externally and internally unstable that nothing seems to be holding them back, those victims become more and more afraid that those managers will be delusional enough to really do it.

This makes those victims extremely angry, because those managers just do whatever they want to them, without those victims being able to do anything in return, especially when those managers use violent threats to cut those victims off from seeking for external helps, so they’re so angry that they want to cross the legal lines as well, instead of just continuing to demand retributions that are legal.

However, they don’t have the balls to just cross the legal lines yet, because they still have something precious to lose, and they’re afraid that they’ll lose everything if they cross the legal lines, or if those violent threats of those managers aren’t just empty bluffs.

So, the anger of those victims is like a massive amount of highly pressurized hot gas, and their fear is like the container that holds this anger, meaning that the longer this extreme conflict of those victims last, the more devastating the sudden explosion of the anger, when the fear as the container is suddenly removed due to those victims having nothing to lose anymore, even though it’s very probable that those victims will instead face mental breakdown first.

Behaviors of dark managers

At this point, the stupidest dark managers on this level are finally fully devoid of humanity and reasons, and everything they do are all about strength and wills, so they won’t even try to use excuses nor lies as cover-ups anymore, since they feel that they’re so extremely strong that they don’t have to, especially when they treat their victims as extreme weaklings.

As those managers are now so unstable that nothing seems to hold them back, their extremely frightening presence and track records of utter insanity alone can already force some victims to submit, so those managers are highly proud of their abilities to horrify those victims without actually doing anything to them.

Therefore, those managers treat humanity and reason, or the use of excuses and lies as signs of weaknesses, and those manifesting them will be much more likely to be treated as weaklings that can be dominated, because they think that those victims must lack strength and wills so much that they’ll have to rely on things perceived as so much inferior by those managers.

Despite the fact that those managers are already full of enemies nearby, they feel so invincible that they’ll keep making more and more via violent threats, since they feel that having so many enemies at once is actually a proof that they’re indeed that extremely strong and the others are that incredibly weak, thus feeling that they’re further maximizing their best interests by having even more victims for their now probably illegal predatory power abuses that are finally extremely heavy and unjust.

So, those managers have completely no rules and their violent threats have literally no boundaries, and with the fact that their random insanity towards resistance of submissions of those victims is totally unpredictable even by themselves, those victims will, despite their extreme anger towards those managers, be forced to submit anyway, otherwise those victims won’t know what kind of insanity will come next.

Core dark management strategy

As the stupidest dark managers on this level failed to use extreme emotional/verbal abuse/violence backed by ruthless strong wills to force their victims to submit, those managers have no choice but to intensify their use of “might makes right”, meaning that they finally have to cross the legal lines, and this includes their predatory power abuses as well as their violent threats.

However, they’ll still just cross them partially instead of completely, so on one hand they’ll use extreme emotional/verbal abuse/violence to threaten those victims into thinking that those managers will really resort to physical violence if those victims don’t surrender, but on the other hand those managers actually have no plans to resort to physical violence at all.

For instance, to violently threaten those victims, those managers might first use extremely swear words with extremely loud voice to vent their extreme anger to those victims, then violently throw glass cups on the floor to violently shatter them close to those victims while ensuring that they won’t be hurt, and finally all of a sudden subtly hinting them that those managers can quickly pinpoint the precise locations of all the family members of those victims, without even suggesting what to do with them.

Although such insane threats aren’t totally illegal because it can be hard to prove the intentions, given that those managers are so extremely unstable that nothing seems to be holding them back, those victims will be afraid that those managers will really harm or even kill their family members, so those victims will be forced to submit even without those manager actually committing any blatantly indefensible crimes.

For victims thinking that those violent threats are just empty bluffs, those managers will really do the minimum amount of them, while trying their best to cover all their tracks so that no one will ever be able to prove anything, in the ways that those victims will know that those violent threats are way more than just empty bluffs.

Fear of dark managers

While the stupidest managers on this level think that they’ve nothing to fear anymore, actually they’re extremely afraid of just about anything, otherwise they wouldn’t treat so many things as potential threats to dominate without even knowing what’s going on.

Actually, those managers can’t always deny their fear, because when some of their victims don’t submit into the violent threats of those managers even with those managers really doing it, those managers will be extremely afraid that there’s really nothing that can be done to control those victims, and this fear of losing control is actually very deadly to those managers.

So, all those managers can do is to deny the possibility that there will be victims who won’t ever submit to such violent threats, and those managers will think that such possibility, even if it does exist, only means even those threats aren’t violent enough, meaning that those managers will feel justified to make even more violent threats than ever.

But no matter how much they deny their fear, at least they should be extremely afraid of their victims, especially those being so extremely angry that the fear of losing something precious to them is the only thing that holds them back, since not all of those victims will inevitably face mental breakdown.

Otherwise, if those managers exploit those victims so much that they’ve nothing to lose anymore, suddenly those victims will be so extremely desperate that they’d rather destroy those managers at all costs, even when this means ending those victims themselves as well.

How to ascend

To be clear, the stupidest dark managers on this level are already too late to save themselves, so only powerful external helps, like prolonged professional psychological supports, can have reasonable chances to save them, provided that they’re stopped by justice first.

First, because now they’re delusional and far-fetched, it’d be nearly impossible for them to even realize that they’ve to stop and change, and trying to rationally persuade them or emotionally move them will be futile either, since they’re now devoid of humanity and reason.

Second, even if they know that they’ve to stop and change, they’ll still far too unstable to do so, due to the fact that they’re so anxious, exhausted and stressed that they’re already engulfed by those extremely negative and strong emotions, meaning that all they can do now is denying anything that triggers their immense fear of death.

Third, those victims suffering from such deep pains from the violent threats of those managers won’t just stop trying to retaliate, let alone forgive, those managers, because it’d be extremely unfair and unjust to those victims if they’ve to just let go of all those damages done by those managers.

So, assuming that it’s still not too late, those managers first need to be stopped by justice as soon as possible, then they need to serve their sentence that are long deserved, only then prolonged professional supports can finally help them to relearn how to behave and return to the society as their one last chance.

Level of managers with blatantly indefensible crimes

Healthiness of this level

When the stupidest dark managers on this level exploit their victims so much that those victims have nothing more to lose, suddenly all those victims become so desperate that they’ll try to destroy those managers at all costs, despite the fact that those victims will end themselves as well.

Now, those managers have almost no one to exploit anymore as nearly everyone else becomes their enemies, so those managers have next to no way to maximize their best interests now, except the only way of desperately destroying all those not always unconditionally disobeying them in full, and brutally looting all of their remains to sustain themselves as long as possible, meaning that those managers are at last completely against what they want the most.

Of course, those managers still need the others to sustain themselves, but with them having to oppose virtually everyone else forever, they’ve no choice but to lie to themselves that they don’t need anyone else anymore and can always be completely self-sufficient, otherwise they’d have to admit that they’ve brought themselves what they fear the most, which is the inevitable death.

So, those managers are finally completely delusional, fully far-fetched and totally pathological, meaning that extreme physical violence being the final destination of the utter insanity will become the most twisted applications of “might makes right” by those managers.

This is the absolute last stop of dark management, which has become so chaotic, extreme and toxic that it’s going to violently shatter at any moment, and those managers, who have become so desperate, stupid and unstable that they’ve become the most anxious, exhausted and stressed possible, will brutally destroy anyone and anything they can, before they’re forcefully stopped or inevitably destroy themselves ferociously as well.

Behaviors of targets

As the targets of the stupidest dark managers on this level have nothing to lose anymore, those victims are freed from their fear as the container of anger, and thus their anger behaving like massive amount of highly pressurized hot gas will suddenly explode violently, causing nothing to hold them back now.

Therefore, even when they can seek for external helps now, all those victims want is still just instant vengeance at all costs, and so they’ll try to immediately destroy those managers, even when they’ll likely be destroyed by those manager instead, and even when those victims will end themselves as well in rare cases they succeeded.

For the same reason, those victims won’t hesitate to destroy those still supporting those managers as well, especially when those supporters get in the way of vengeance, since getting revenge already becomes what those victims are all about.

Even if, in rare cases, those managers have so much predatory power to abuse that it’s clearly impossible to even harm them one bit, those victims will still go for the revenge, because they’ve had enough of the fear of such extremely random insanity that are completely inescapable, fully unpredictable and totally unstoppable, and they believe that they’re going to be destroyed by those managers anyway, even without the uprising against them.

At this point, the only way to stop those victims from getting revenge is to stop those managers with justice, in the little hopes that those victims will feel that those managers finally get what they long deserved, and thus try to let go of the immense urge of vengeance.

Behaviors of dark managers

As the stupidest dark managers on this level have effectively no one to exploit anymore, they’ll be so paranoid that they’ll just treat those showing even a slight sign of being against those managers for even just a moment as extremely deadly threats, so they’ll destroy all those within their reach, meaning that even those still supporting those managers aren’t safe from this pathology forever, since eternal absolute obedience is just impossible for anyone, and those managers will still seriously harm those supporting them to maximize their best interests, it’s just that the latter won’t be outright destroyed, unlike those showing any form of resistance.

As those managers destroy more and more of their victims, those managers will feel more and more invincible when it comes to physical violence which is all they’ve, eventually they’ll think that they alone can destroy everyone else all at once, and they’ll really act on this utterly insane belief if this continues.

Because of this, those managers are just being blind and stumbling in the dark while annihilating anyone happening to get in their way, so the fear they force into anyone else within their reach is like having to keep futilely dodging insanely fast, extremely unpredictable and utterly unstoppable drones that are unbelievably silent in incredibly dark and unbelievably small rooms that, even being barely touched by such drones for just a moment will result in instant deaths.

Now, those managers, thinking that they really own the whole world, become the most savage organisms possible in the entire planet, because they’re not even destroying the others for any actual need of survival or neutralizing any genuinely deadly threat, but just to maintain the insane lie that they’ve indeed “defeated” the fear of death by always being completely self-sufficient.

They know that the entire world is against them, all their victims are to destroy them, and everyone else is to stop them, but they’ll just try to destroy just about everyone and everything, so nothing except themselves will remain even if they do succeed, meaning that they’re now obviously manifesting the most severe psychosis in full.

Core dark management strategy

When even violent threats are futile against the victims of the stupidest dark managers on this level, those managers have to use direct physical violence as the last resort of applying “might makes right”, because that’s the only choice they haven’t relied on yet.

The goal isn’t to maximize their best interests or even just sustain themselves anymore, but to destroy as many of the others as possible, before those managers are inevitably destroyed, so it’s just an insanely pathological way for them to futilely buy as many time as they can.

Of course, those managers are still delusional, far-fetched and pathological enough that they’ll think that, just by using the most ferocious physical violence to destroy some of the others as brutally as possible can already scare off basically everyone else, so none of the others will ever have the courage to even try to challenge them, and have to instead submit to the blatantly indefensible predatory power abuses of those managers to maximize their best interests, regardless of how heavy and unjust those abuses are.

While this obviously won’t work for long, even if it works, the fear still won’t last forever, so eventually those managers will have to destroy some others in even more ferocious and brutal ways, meaning that those managers will still have to repeat this until they’re destroyed.

Nevertheless, while looting the remains of those destroyed by those managers are vital, it’s even more important to spread fear like wildfire by openly manifesting the process of such gore and inhuman destruction, so in cases where these 2 goals are at odds with each other, those managers won’t hesitate to choose the latter at the cost of the former.

Fear of dark managers

The most obvious fear of the stupidest dark managers on this level is that they’ll be destroyed by the others, because no matter how delusional, far-fetched and pathological they’re, deep down they still know that it’s just impossible to destroy everyone else.

Yet, this path is all they can take now, and so the only choice they have is whether they surrender and be destroyed now, or destroy as many as they can before they’re destroyed, and those managers who’re so afraid of death will of course choose the latter without a thought.

However, even if those managers are really so powerful that they can truly destroy everyone else, there will still be nothing left for them eventually, and so they’ll still be unable to sustain themselves and thus effectively destroy themselves at the end, hence they’ve way passed the point of no return for far too long.

Alternatively, if they know that they’re being destroyed but can’t destroy anyone anymore, they’ll also be suddenly very afraid of what will come to them, because the reality has forced them to face the truth that they’ve been running away for so long, especially the fact that they actually fear death way more than anyone else.

Therefore, now they really have no place to hide and nowhere to run, yet they also have no one to help and no time to wait, so there’s absolutely nothing they can do but they’ve to do something no matter what, meaning that they’re so trapped in such twisted situation that no one can even know what’s going on inside them anymore.

How to ascend

The simple answer is don’t even try, because the stupidest dark managers on this level are way beyond redemption and must be immediately isolated from the society forever at all costs, even when sometimes that means having to destroy them instantly.

After all, their sins are so insanely deep that almost no one will ever let go of what they’ve done, let alone forgiving them, so stopping them with nonlethal justice is the best path the others can give to them, regardless of whether they accept it or not.

Also, the longer they’re not faced with justice, the longer their victims will want to destroy them, and the longer those managers will commit more and more blatantly indefensible crimes, meaning that their situations will only become more and more dangerous and dire before justice serves them right.

So, while it’s impossible for them to just turn themselves in out of thin air, or even just persuading them to do so, those being able to turn them in must do it instantly, and those people need to understand that doing so is the only way to save them, so there’s no reason to even hesitate anymore.

As for why those managers are beyond redemption, it’s because they’ve become such utter messes that even prolonged psychological supports are useless in front of such extreme insanity, otherwise there wouldn’t be some mental patients that can never rejoin the society in the rest of their lives.

Reviews

As the dark managers descend from the healthiest level to the unhealthiest level, they first become more and more unsustainable and less and less internally stable, then become more and more anxious, exhausted and stressed, and finally become less and less deceptive and externally stable, until they become so desperate, stupid and unstable that they end up being delusional, far-fetched and pathological.

Similarly, during the process, the dark management becomes less and less hidden, harder and harder to control, and further and further away from actually maximizing the best interests of those managers, until it becomes so chaotic, extreme and toxic that it’s just impossible to keep holding itself together any longer.

Besides, on this journey, the targets of those managers become less and less sustainable, suffer more and more painfully, and hate those managers as well as dark management more and more in case they know the truth, until those targets become so afraid and angry that they’ll either be totally out of reach of those managers, manage to retaliate legally, or get themselves destroyed.

All these trends stem from the core fact that, as those managers become less and less healthy, THEY BECOME MORE AND MORE SHORT-SIGHTED ON THE INSTANTANEOUS BENEFITS, AND CARE LESS AND LESS ON THE LONG-TERM CAPACITIES OF PRODUCING MORE AND MORE BENEFITS OVER TIME, so those managers will unknowingly damage the latter more and more as futile attempts to maximize the former, in order to counter the immensely imminent fear of death.

So, to move up rather than down the levels, those managers should instead focus more and more on consolidating all the basic building blocks constituting such long-term production capacities, like the alignment of the motivations of those victims with the best interests of those managers, the number of sustainable victims, and how well the dark management is hidden in the dark as well as how deceptive those managers are, and only maximize the instantaneous benefits at the cost of such production capacities when absolutely necessary and with minimal damages done.