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When I say we need to understand ourselves and how we are being manipulated, this is what I mean. Facebook
targets for Dark Triad/Dark Tetrad tendencies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/narcissism-mask-covid-psychology/2020/09/25/d3de1b32-fe9c-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html
targets for Dark Triad/Dark Tetrad tendencies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/narcissism-mask-covid-psychology/2020/09/25/d3de1b32-fe9c-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html
These traits aren't inherently bad, but they can be destructive to interpersonal relationships without self-awareness. With self-awareness, they can (like any human trait) be neutralized or refashioned into a positive and healthy quality. Facebook data preys on lack of awareness.
I realize this sounds like psychobabble, and I'm not going to pretend expertise or diagnose or prescribe shit. But I like people and think overall humans are pretty cool, and therefore I have spent a lifetime observing and reading about human behavior and that's my conclusion.
But I have drawn this from my own experiences and particular interests, and it's time to expand our own understanding of human growth. I've felt for some time that something like the positive disintegration model is the only way to fight active measures https://positivepsychology.com/dabrowskis-positive-disintegration/
This is a war, you see -- a new kind of war. Our personality data is going to keep being used against us. We have to learn to fight back accordingly.
Oh, for those who may not be familiar, this is the Dark Triad/Dark Tetrad theory. It consists of three (or four) personality traits that correspond to the dark sides of human nature.
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-08692-009
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-08692-009
Facebook data has been used to target individuals based on those specific traits. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cambridge-analytica-kogan/academic-in-facebook-storm-worked-on-russian-dark-personality-project-idUSKBN1GX2F6
You can perhaps see why I was so alarmed when I put all of this together a few years ago and saw what it was capable of bringing about when I caught on to what was really happening in Myanmar. I now believe that Myanmar was a lab, not an accident.
I don't think they were the first one nor do I think they were the only one. I also don't think that this data is going to go away, and while our personalities do not always remain stable over time, our oldest and most atavistic fears and angers do. We have to face them all.
So we have to understand ourselves, even through something as relatively crude as through MBTI tests, really get to know ourselves the way Facebook data knows us. Be honest with who we are, and emotionally honest with one another. We have to strive for compassion above all now.
That is not the same thing as being a pushover. But we have to strive, as individuals, as a country, for authenticity, emotional honesty, and compassion. We have to take good honest looks at our personality flaws and fears and strive to turn them into positives. It can be done.
Remember too, there's also a Light Triad. Facebook and all its nasty fellow data leeches don't seem to be all that much interested in that. Yet another way tech repeats the flaws of its programmers. Their lack of vision will be their downfall. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-light-triad-vs-dark-triad-of-personality/
