On Deception and Criminal Networks
We've all been deceived from time to time. Victimization is not a personal failing, but it's time to start climbing out.
My post from earlier this week has gotten me some attention that I didn’t anticipate. I’m happy to have it, if only because that attention shows the depth of the problems.
Forgiveness
I recently learned that an individual, who I considered a friend until very recently, has been deceiving me and those around me for a long time.
The deception I wrote about has cost me dearly in terms of personal, as well as professional relationships. I’m not sure whether some of those relationships will ever fully recover. I hope they will - but that is not something I have any say over.
The tentacles of the really bad networks are broad and extensive. They are done in a way that is so clever, most people working for them think they are working for the “good guys” if they know they are working for anyone at all. And the closer people get to the heads of these networks, the more effort will go into keeping them away from independent thinkers.
As time goes on, I realize more and more how my writings may have been utilized by various people—people I didn’t even know—to push causes I knew nothing about. And to some extent they may have been used by people who were on the same team, even when I thought we were on opposite sides.
The deception runs very deep, and is long-standing. Learning that someone you trusted was deceiving you can turn your world upside-down until you do the work to turn it right again. And with that, you gain a whole new understanding of the world.
