CONfidence Games, Traditional And Current Variants

CV1984 has been a giant PsyOp, or Confidence Game. It has myriad parts, such as “Mass Formation Psychosis” which was utter bunk from the outset. But like other cons, people keep falling for them.

Trying to break someone of the spell of a good con artist isn't always an easy task. Like other forms of brainwashing, one may get to the point of asking, does the end justify the means? Do the measures that might have to be utilized justify the result of, hopefully, breaking the spell? Or is it better to let the fraud proceed and hope that the victim will learn the lesson the old-fashioned way, through experience.

Alas, as Churchill observed, they may not learn no matter how brutal the consequences: "Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."

I came upon an excellent 21:46 interview with Maria Konnikova, author of "The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time". While it doesn't have all the answers, it's useful to better understand the question, whether victim or spectator.

Be it the CV1984 Plandemic, or the old-fashioned “gold in Africa” and “inheritance” scams, we all need to better understand how cons work, because while the ravaged may not fully take us with 'em, we can still suffer great harm from the swindles.


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