Parasitic People, The Sycophants
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A Disease of Desire, A Psychopathic Parasite
A “psychopathic parasite” refers to a core trait in the clinical definition of psychopathy: the parasitic lifestyle. It describes a pattern of intentionally relying on others for financial, emotional, or material support without reciprocity, exploiting victims while giving nothing back.
The Designs of a Madman Leads the Foolish, a Stray.
These modern times have emboldened the individuals who had traditionally lived their lives in the shadows of our society. Often working in higher levels of management and government; seeking positions of greater power or influence. Recently, those manipulated by the psychopathic parasite felt they had been working in the shadows too long; they wanted greater power and control. Not a rash decision, but rather a well-calculated step forward in the goal of total dominance and power over all others.
In Dreamland AI, the parasite, like so many living beings, has a magical power; theirs is the power of persuasion. Their ability to convince, deceive and con unsuspecting victims is cruel and remorseless. The magical power enchants their words into truth, and then those words are believed without hesitation.
This disease creates desire and the need for excess, controlling your mind, producing the never-ending lust for power and wealth, corrupting your thoughts. The disease grows quickly, fed by your own selfish feelings and needs. Once fully integrated with the host, it produces a hungry and greed, an incredible lust for self-satisfaction. The infected are among us, manipulated by their desires of grandeur and self-indulgence, beware of their grift.
Parasitic Camouflage Successful, At First
Effecting the people is a highly contagious disease that has already gone global, threatening to destroy every kind of thing in Dreamland. This insidious disease does not need direct contact to infect. Jumping on thousands at a time received by transmitted words and images on media of all types. The media transmissions are designed to find allies by tapping into their mutual desires of greed, power, hate, or discrimination.
Hiding in plain sight is the strength of the fledgling parasitic disease casualty. Perfectly blending in, using camouflage that suggests they are similar to other people, showing no outward clue as to their true selves — yet. Their new skills of persuasion are just waiting to develop.
The illness gives a choice to its victim before being infected, by listening or, not listening to others affected, or believing their words, not following them down the slippery slope. Avoid the clandestine meetings, skip the secret agendas, expose hidden purposes.
A parasitic toolbox is loaded with a jackpot of plans.
Self-Inflicted Parasitic Epidemic
Only in a fantasy world like Dreamland would you be able to see the inner person standing before you. Their character, their morals, manifesting their physical face; the choices they have made, all on display. See them for who they are in the flesh, unable to hide their intent from the unsuspecting behind their smile.
As it happens, living in Dreamland means being altered by the mutating radiation that surrounds the planet, transforming your appearance to assume your true face. Warriors grow a bone type skin as armour, magic users of all kinds evolve spectacular powers over nature. Seers, individuals with the magical gift of sight, often develop blank colourless eyes. Good thoughts and deeds are rewarded with beautiful kind appearances, evil thoughts and deeds are to twist and deform the person into a grotesque figure.
The mutating radiation impacts everything in Dreamland. It alters the DNA of all living things in this fantasy world. The changes brought about fantastical fast evolution of appearances with amazing skills and abilities. In Dreamland, as you live on, you will take on more and more of the physical appearance of what you become.
Enhanced capabilities for Organic Scientific Engineers, Magic Users, their psychic powers flow freely. There are magic users of all kinds in this Artificial Dreamland. The energies that flow in this world have special properties, which has given magical powers to the majority of the flora and fauna.
The Radiative Energies
The energies, as they’re called, are a unique form of radiation activated as the settlers arrived. A phenomenon discovered accidentally. An ancient orbital device reacted to the proximity of the settler’s ships, exploding their energy supply, combining the radioactive energies released a transforming field of radiation that surrounded the world. Exposure to the radiation at any level can bring about the birth of magical abilities.
Plotting Behind The Backs of Others.
This parasitic disease, often self-inflicted, will overwhelmingly control the host. The parasite forcing desires, including greed and lust for power, harming others. Fuelling piggish compulsiveness, demonstrating perfect gluttony. Following the path of gain also puts you on a path which disregards life, as if under the influence of a drug that makes it an easy choice. As the infection continues to grow, the parasite develops less regard for life, no empathy for the pain felt by others. Just the insatiable lust for power.
Without the power base to support the parasite, it stays in the shadows watching their passive-aggressive plans of retaliation play out. Their wrath will be fulfilled on any opposition or criticism and their families. Working behind the scene keeps the parasite safe while still vulnerable to attack from the people who see the truth. Building friction within the competition, delaying projects, organizing groups to oppose and hinder developments. Breaking apart organizations, teams and other groups that provided stability in the area, basically sabotage.
Erosion of Beauty
Following a path into darkness for any reason will bring you, more darkness. In Dreamland, the darkness lures those infected by the parasitic disease further into evil thoughts and deeds. As legends describe, Sirens of Greece call passing sailors to come closer, only bringing them closer to the certain destruction on the rocks. The enthusiastic parasites with youth and beauty learn quickly that with each step forward, the transformation of deformation accumulates.
The Method
Scream your lies the loudest, then repeat. To take advantage, you must deceive your victims.
Parasitic people hide their intentions behind half-truths and lies. Never showing their true face or feelings, hiding their dark thoughts. Promoting contentious social talking points, pushing people to anger with more lies and rhetoric. Gaining power is the goal, building wealth fuels their ambitions to gain power. Using the wealth and power in all setting to attract like individuals. Gaining allies with similar interests, such as hating others for instance, hate is a strong emotion.
Being the loudest, repeating your rhetoric over and over until the people believe you, is how to gain power before the others retaliate. For the Parasitic leader to move in the open, the parasite needs to be very well established with a large following and tremendous power.
The Mantra of The Parasitic Leader
At the point when the power lets the Parasitic Leader be public about plans, share the hatred openly. That is when they really need to rely on their base that it is so large they are not even challenged on lies.
Blinded with pride and envy of others, the disease nurtures the fragile ego. Egos that become easily wounded, triggering all the wrath and hate that can be mustered on those that anger the infected. Hate serves as the tool, and the rhetoric is the delivery method.
Bringing You The News
Darkness moves forward, media outlets on repeat regurgitating your lies, bringing you the news. Parasitic People, The Sycophants.
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
It is not that power corrupts, but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”― Frank Herbert,
The Pinnacle, The Authoritarian Ruler
To become an Authoritarian Ruler is the pinnacle of achievement for the parasitic leader. Total control, total greed, total power and countless people praising your fabricated accomplishments. Every person, or company that wants to succeed sucks up to you. The Sycophants display their fictionist love for you. Haven has opened in the sky above to send you the most exulted praises, singing hymns of your great accomplishments.
“I am beloved by all!”
You have become delusional. More people hate you than every before. More people want you dead, they all hope you fall to your end and pull all the sycophants with you. They want your network, the aids, the assistances and all the people involved to wither and die. You are despised.
The Psychopath
Authoritarian Ruler is the pinnacle of achievement for the parasitic leader. Parasitic People, The Sycophants
Soon to Be slaughtered
Hide as you will, your actions have consequences, all those you have harmed, their families, their friends. Expect to be nailed to a great wooden “X” you fat cow.
The Enablers
The enablers are often self-motivated, without direction from the leader. By deciding to undertake nefarious schemes of disruption for the cause, they hope to gain favour with the Parasitic Leader in charge. In their minds, to forward or aid the cause is the ultimate show of loyalty to their leader. Others flock to the feet of the great parasitic leader, praising, encouraging, stroking the ego. Seeking the opportunity to persuade the leader to support their back handed plans for gain. These are the sycophants.
The Procedure
Undermining the systems and infrastructure greatly reduces the resistance of a country from take over. Creating chaos throughout an area can overload the cultural checks and balances, weakening the status quo. Like the maggots, slow destructive erosion is part of the process, one bite at a time.
The Little People
The need of the parasitic leader for help to succeed is paramount, the helpers, or enablers, of the parasitic leader are essentially junior parasites, linked by their mutual desires of greed or power. They surround themselves with as many sycophants as possible, the more support the stronger you will be. Reaching around the world to other authoritarian leader, looking for new parasites to fill the ranks, continually multiplying their numbers.
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