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Petty tyrants

The “petty tyrants” are mentioned in The Fire Within : A petty tyrant is a tormentor. Someone who either holds the power of life and death over warriors or simply annoys them to distraction. Petty tyrants teach us detachment.

• Tyrant - Primal source of energy, ruler of the universe (loose translation: life is a bitch/bastard, and then your die)
  • Ominous dots are hilariously inline with God not playing dice with the universe but playing an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time, as Terry Pratchett puts it in Good Omens

• Petty Tyrants - Tyrannical rulers or authoritarian persons who actually hold power over life or death of others.
  • Pillage & Plunder: Modern war is a combination of military, economic, political, and propaganda pressure against the enemy, fought on all fronts at once. What western nations have used for centuries is a two-pronged strategy, one energy-driven (aimed at securing more resources from the rest of the world) and the other security-driven (aimed at enhancing the capacity to intervene in exactly such locales),  that governs policies toward much of the world.

• Minor Petty Tyrants: Tormentors who are fearsome and inflict misery, but do not hold any real power over life or death of others. In digital contexts we have sockpuppets and trolls.
  • Sockpuppetry (using false identities for deception) is centuries old, but the web has made creating sockpuppets, and falling for their tricks, easier than ever before. And we can make our own, if only for understanding our adversaries and finding countermoves.
  • Some of the trolls on the internet fit this category. You can not control whether you will become a target of these types of trolls and you can decide if you will be a victim. Knowing that the troll’s goal is to elicit a reaction instead of a response, you can initially use the famous “Don’t Feed The Trolls!” defense, but if maintained this gives the trolls even more power as it gives them the power to silence you.
• Little Petty Tyrants - Tormentors with violence and cruelty; inducing fear through deviousness; subjugating another through sadness; or by making another act in anger rage.
  • Cyberbullies are also not under our control. And in the current state(s) of society, some of our little ones and some of the more vulnerable members of society may need some help, the help they are not receiving because everybody is too busy making money and racing around for that.
• Teensy-weensy Petty Tyrants - Tormentors who are just frustrating, exasperating and annoy to distraction.
  • IMHO hanging out with those now and again is a great exercise in not giving power away and not taking someone elses power away either. 

The ingredients of the new seers' strategy shows how efficient and clever is the device of using a petty tyrant. The strategy not only gets rid of self-importance; it also prepares warriors for the final realization that impeccability is the only thing that counts in the path of knowledge.

Uncluttering

As I am uncluttering my life, machines, social media presence, and whatever else needs cleaning up, I be deleting accounts and removing websites in a relaxed manner. In the uncluttering pages I keep track of some of the moves I made and make with regard to that and try to make it a tutorial. That is nonsense ofcourse. It just takes a leap. Paradoxically, such leaps require confidence one can do better without the clutter. Therefor, may the clutter be with you until the burden becomes too great for you, because then *anything* is better .

Methodologies, processes and choreographies

Most processes are adapted to allow for minimalist approaches and to minimalise the risk of becoming the petty tyrants we fight.

• Shortest retrospective ever
• Scenario planning
• Threat modeling the quick and dirty way

Unexpected forms of logic

• Non-linear time
• Roleplay and controlled folly
• Confusing surveillance systems

References

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