Dave talks about streets smarts and AFKAN talks about confrontation. I will not repeat READ THE COMMENTS, but it is interesting to me how our thoughts all come more and more into OBVIOUS interrelation.
When I was in drug treatment, one fellow had the others, they were mostly teenagers, scared to death. He was an ex-con on parole. One day he went over the line and I looked him in the eye and said, “Don’t mess with us old farts. You don’t know where we’ve been.”
This did not have the dramatic effect of terrifying him. He just looked at me and decided I made sense. Every person who lives a life of confrontation makes a calculation. If he goes after everybody he’s dead before he reaches age twenty. I was just somebody he knew not to push.
Now let me make a really wild leap. In my graduate school, two of my professors LATER got Nobel Prizes in an area called Cost-Benefit Analysis. Both of those professors were kicked out of the University of Virginia because cost-benefit analysis was considered too esoteric and came to the wrong conclusions.
But every psychopath like the one I dealt with there and the white trash I dealt with in my youth practiced cost-benefit analysis all the time.
I have been around an awfully lot, so I can be very friendly to people I meet on the street, the kind of people I am used to dealing with in drug rehab, and then look them in the eye when they ask for something and say “No.”
Others should follow Dave’s advice EXACTLY.
But it really sounds wild to say that the person I am confronting is practicing cost-benefit analysis. He looks at me and decides it isn’t worth it.
So Dave talks about street smarts and AFKAN keeps going into confrontation. I talk about Nobel Prize level discussion and facing a psychopath.
All I ask is that you understand the UNITY of THOUGHT here.
#1 by woundednietzsche on 12/08/2007 - 1:09 am
“This did not have the dramatic effect of terrifying him. He just looked at me and decided I made sense. Every person who lives a life of confrontation makes a calculation. If he goes after everybody he’s dead before he reaches age twenty. I was just somebody he knew not to push.”
You didn’t have to terrify him, you simply had to show no fear. Street hustlers, muggers, aggressors, (PC enforcers) are very much like dogs, they work off of signals. Everything you do is sending a signal, but they can smell fear a mile off. Fear is what ignites their aggression. Fear is what they expect you to show. When you don’t show fear, THEY immediately become frightened. We know what’s in their arsenal and its nothing we’ve not seen before. Trust that the enemy will be feeling the mantra slice into their underbelly for the first time.