Controlling Personalities 101: On Character & An 'Unsubmited Will'
This post is long, we broke it into embeddable parts:
I. Command vs. Control
II. Dr. George Simon "In Sheep's Clothing"
III. Zuckerberg Testifies to the Senate
IV. Timing Markers of C-Span Zuckerberg Footage
I. Command vs. Control
Successful people become successful through ability and talent and gradually corralling some command over parts of their environment and life.
Having command over your environment is different from controlling other people. Command without control means you still submit to legalities, and recognize the need for your partner or customers to have their own will. And command without slipping into being controlling requires you only rarely or very judiciously resort to manipulation, and exploit information imbalance.
An "unsubmitted will" is a personality trait infuriating for people to engage with and witness if they have no name for it. "This person, he won't take responsibility for what he's done." "My coworker is always innocent, and that's her problem."
"This person, she 'doesn't see' how she's affecting people."
Maybe she has an unsubmitted will "she sees, she just disagrees."
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II. Dr. George Simon "In Sheep's Clothing"
Psychologist Dr. George Simon has been a lone ranger in his field, documenting willful personalities who manipulate to get their way and do not learn how, or do not choose to, selectively choose their battles. Early in Simon's career, society and his field still attributed most psychological afflictions as stemming from neuroses, and rarely considered their cause to be aggression.
Simon's first book "In Sheep's Clothing" on character and manipulation has been translated into 12 languages and penetrated Amazon.com self-help classics categories. Says Simon, on his blog:
As reported here on self-driving cars, new technology opens new gray areas. At first there are no laws and often there shouldn't be so the new technology and its business have a chance to reach financial sustainability or even profitability.
How an unregulated industry's CEO exploits those gray areas is not a matter of laws but reflective of their distinctness and character. And to how well the culture keeps a CEO "with few internal breaks" in check.
It's hard for Generation X and younger to understand but society once extolled "character" before it precipitously fell from style just before we were in the womb. When people testify, they pledge to tell 1) the truth, 2) the WHOLE truth and 3) nothing but.
Smart functional people play it close to the vest when it's appropriate, but failing to obey pledge #2 when testifying is serious.
What's crazy-making, as Simon would say, for those engaging or witnessing an unsubmitted will personality, is discerning whether a) he's manipulating with intention, or b) his excuse-making is second-nature and he's unaware of his own evasiveness. Some "character deficient" people have been manipulating and evading so long they convince themselves it's the latter.
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III. Zuckerberg Testifies to the Senate
After a full morning and afternoon of testimony in front of a joint committee of congress, Mark Zuckerberg adjourned and prepared to reappear tomorrow. Observers on media twitter and wretches commentating for the PBS Newshour vented their own confusion and frustration by scapegoating Zuckerberg's congressional oversight questioners as "unprepared" and "too old" to understand the technology he brought to the world our senators are now trying to rein in. Were the senators today too old for this job?
Nonsense.
Senators don't need to know how to replace your car's timing belt and water pump to exercise oversight on automakers with deceptive emissions reports. And they don't need to know the names of which Javascript libraries Facebook uses to express its client-side interface. Every person of congress, the oldest ones there, can register online for an email account. If they can do that they can use Facebook. If they manage time well, senators hire an assistant to publish to Facebook for them.
Congress today used plain language to ask some good questions.
Congress today pressed Zuckerberg from Democrat seats and Republican ones, with very few overlapping lines of questioning. The only overlaps being senators following up questioning from an hour prior, picking up where a colleague that Zuckerberg didn't answer forthrightly left off.
The most telling pieces of Zuckerberg's testimony today had the fewest technical terms and were often no longer than a word. In a four hour sessions with senator after senator asking their witness to answer "yes or no" and that witness responding with "in general" or "well senator" and several verbose answers containing neither yes nor no, exchanges where he used those one-word answers told a lot about his ego and double standards on privacy.
At 1:29:00
At 3:22:00
At 4:07:00
The only reason senators may have appeared "uninformed" or "old" to some tweeps were a few tiny technical mistakes made by senators referring to an old Facebook policy and the CEO of his "Move Fast and Break Things" company responding with the never-announced updated policy as if it had always been such: "Senator! You already can do that!" Zuckerberg told Senator Kennedy (R-LA) near 3:55:00.
Or the other slight-of-hand Zuckerberg repeated ad nauseam making informed senators appearing uninformed was his mantra "we don't sell your data" but Facebook gives our data away to app developers even if they don't request it, and Facebook makes a lot of money selling targeted ads to us. "Well you clearly rent it" replied Senator Cornyn (R-TX) at 1:39:00.
Time markers and notes below.
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IV. Timing Markers of C-Span Zuckerberg Footage
The congressional hearing covered a lot of material. Another point unprepared journalists may miss is, while they're supposed to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, reporting scribes may mistake the CEO as the afflicted and the punching bag senators as the comfortable. While we have Zuckerberg, let's get clear on what congress covered today and what they can cover tomorrow.
Hour One
0:00 Senator Grassley (R-IA) opened the hearing.
4:50 Senator Thune (R-ND) opens with statistics Facebook had more users than every country on earth has people, except for China. Four times as many users as the population of the U.S. He said the hearing would focus on "Data Privacy" "Security" the recently violated "FTC" consent decree and something about "jurisdictions."
data scrape
dark web
9:50 Senator Feinstein (D-CA)
14:25 Grassley
19:44 Senator Nelson (D-FL)
29:30 Grassley
35:00 Nelson
40:00 Thune
46:00 Feinstein
51:00 Senator Hatch (R-UT)
56:00 Senator Cantwell (D-WA)
Hour Two
1:02:00 Senator Wicker (R-MS)
1:07:00 Senator Leahy (D-VT)
1:13:00 Senator Graham (R-SC)
1:18:00 Senator Klobuchar (D-MN)
1:24:00 Senator Blunt (R-MT)
1:29:00 Senator Durbin (D-IL)
1:34:00 Senator Cornyn (R-TX)
1:41:00 Senator Blumenthal (D-CT)
1:46:00 Senatur Cruz (R-TX)
Hour Three
2:04:00 Senator Whitehouse (R-RI)
2:11:00 Senator Lee (R-UT)
2:16:00 Senator Schatz (D-HI)
2:21:00 Senator Fischer (R-NE)
2:27:00 Senator Coons (D-DE)
2:33:00 Senator Sasse (R-NE)
2:39:00 Senator Markey (D-MA)
2:45:00 Senator Flake (R-AZ)
2:50:00 Senator Hirano (D-HI)
2:56:00 Senator Sullivan (R-AK)
Hour Four
3:02:00 Senator Udall (D-NM)
3:08:00 Senator Moran (R-KS)
3:14:00 Senator Booker (D-NJ)
3:10:00 Senator Heller (R-NV)
3:36:00 Senator Peters (D-MI)
3:45:00 Senator Tillis (R-NC)
3:50:00 Senator Harris (D-CA)
3:33:00 Senator Kennedy (R-LA)
4:00:00 Senator Baldwin (D-WI)
4:09:00 Senator Johnson (R-WI)
3:50:00 Senator Hassan (D-NH)
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More Links:
4/13/2018: Why the Cooling Saucer Senate Appeared 'So Old' at Zuckerberg Hearings: offlinereport.net
Congress allowed Mark Zuckerberg "to testify without being sworn in" unlike past oil and tobacco executives. twitter.com/TheBeatWithAri
This work by AJ Fish is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
I. Command vs. Control
II. Dr. George Simon "In Sheep's Clothing"
III. Zuckerberg Testifies to the Senate
IV. Timing Markers of C-Span Zuckerberg Footage
I. Command vs. Control
Successful people become successful through ability and talent and gradually corralling some command over parts of their environment and life.
Having command over your environment is different from controlling other people. Command without control means you still submit to legalities, and recognize the need for your partner or customers to have their own will. And command without slipping into being controlling requires you only rarely or very judiciously resort to manipulation, and exploit information imbalance.
An "unsubmitted will" is a personality trait infuriating for people to engage with and witness if they have no name for it. "This person, he won't take responsibility for what he's done." "My coworker is always innocent, and that's her problem."
"This person, she 'doesn't see' how she's affecting people."
Maybe she has an unsubmitted will "she sees, she just disagrees."
--*--*--*--
II. Dr. George Simon "In Sheep's Clothing"
Psychologist Dr. George Simon has been a lone ranger in his field, documenting willful personalities who manipulate to get their way and do not learn how, or do not choose to, selectively choose their battles. Early in Simon's career, society and his field still attributed most psychological afflictions as stemming from neuroses, and rarely considered their cause to be aggression.
Simon's first book "In Sheep's Clothing" on character and manipulation has been translated into 12 languages and penetrated Amazon.com self-help classics categories. Says Simon, on his blog:
"Rationalizing for wrongful behavior is nothing new. But some folks rationalize more than others. In fact, some have raised excuse-making to nearly an art form."As Simon explains it, an aggressive personality just wants what he wants. There's no need for a my-parent-didn't-love-me backstory though one is as often present as not. A willful aggressive person takes without asking and thinks the law was made by people inferior to him so he pays lip service to it with full consciousness he has no plans for submission.
As reported here on self-driving cars, new technology opens new gray areas. At first there are no laws and often there shouldn't be so the new technology and its business have a chance to reach financial sustainability or even profitability.
How an unregulated industry's CEO exploits those gray areas is not a matter of laws but reflective of their distinctness and character. And to how well the culture keeps a CEO "with few internal breaks" in check.
It's hard for Generation X and younger to understand but society once extolled "character" before it precipitously fell from style just before we were in the womb. When people testify, they pledge to tell 1) the truth, 2) the WHOLE truth and 3) nothing but.
Smart functional people play it close to the vest when it's appropriate, but failing to obey pledge #2 when testifying is serious.
What's crazy-making, as Simon would say, for those engaging or witnessing an unsubmitted will personality, is discerning whether a) he's manipulating with intention, or b) his excuse-making is second-nature and he's unaware of his own evasiveness. Some "character deficient" people have been manipulating and evading so long they convince themselves it's the latter.
--*--*--*--
III. Zuckerberg Testifies to the Senate
After a full morning and afternoon of testimony in front of a joint committee of congress, Mark Zuckerberg adjourned and prepared to reappear tomorrow. Observers on media twitter and wretches commentating for the PBS Newshour vented their own confusion and frustration by scapegoating Zuckerberg's congressional oversight questioners as "unprepared" and "too old" to understand the technology he brought to the world our senators are now trying to rein in. Were the senators today too old for this job?
Nonsense.
Senators don't need to know how to replace your car's timing belt and water pump to exercise oversight on automakers with deceptive emissions reports. And they don't need to know the names of which Javascript libraries Facebook uses to express its client-side interface. Every person of congress, the oldest ones there, can register online for an email account. If they can do that they can use Facebook. If they manage time well, senators hire an assistant to publish to Facebook for them.
Congress today used plain language to ask some good questions.
Congress today pressed Zuckerberg from Democrat seats and Republican ones, with very few overlapping lines of questioning. The only overlaps being senators following up questioning from an hour prior, picking up where a colleague that Zuckerberg didn't answer forthrightly left off.
The most telling pieces of Zuckerberg's testimony today had the fewest technical terms and were often no longer than a word. In a four hour sessions with senator after senator asking their witness to answer "yes or no" and that witness responding with "in general" or "well senator" and several verbose answers containing neither yes nor no, exchanges where he used those one-word answers told a lot about his ego and double standards on privacy.
At 1:29:00
Senator Durbin (D-IL) asked Zuckerberg if he'd share his hotel with the audience? His text messages from the last 24 hours?
Zuckerberg: "No!"
At 3:22:00
Senator Heller (R-NV) asked Zuckerberg do you think you're a more responsible steward of user data than the federal government?
Zuckerberg: [Three beat pause] "Yes!"
At 4:07:00
Senator Johnson (R-WI): "With all this publicity, have you documented any kind of backlash from Facebook users, I mean has there been a kind of dramatic fall off in the number of people who utilize Facebook because of these concerns?"
Zuckerberg: Senator, there has not.
Johnson: [pause] Uh you haven't even witnessed any?
Zuckerberg: Um ... senator there there was a movement where some people were encouraging their friends to delete their account and I think that that got shared a bunch?
Johnson: So so it's kind of safe to say that Facebook users don't seem to be overly concerned about all these revelations although obviously congress apparently is.
Zuckerberg: Well senator, [pause] I think people are concerned about it. I think these are incredibly important issues that people want us to address and I think people have told us that very clearly.
Johnson: Well it seems like Facebook users still want to use the platform because they enjoy sharing photos and they share the connectivity of the family members and that type of thing, and that ... overrides their concerns about privacy.
You talk about users owning their data ...The reason for the utterly ageist attacks on the senators today from the twitter gallery and forty-plus PBS Newshour contributor Franklin Foer, could be due to the sheer volume of different topics senators questioned Zuckerberg on, leaving a wall of white noise with a signal detectable to only the most alert attentive journalist or obsessive technically proficient observer. A white noise wall illustrative of how overdue such a hearing was.
The only reason senators may have appeared "uninformed" or "old" to some tweeps were a few tiny technical mistakes made by senators referring to an old Facebook policy and the CEO of his "Move Fast and Break Things" company responding with the never-announced updated policy as if it had always been such: "Senator! You already can do that!" Zuckerberg told Senator Kennedy (R-LA) near 3:55:00.
Or the other slight-of-hand Zuckerberg repeated ad nauseam making informed senators appearing uninformed was his mantra "we don't sell your data" but Facebook gives our data away to app developers even if they don't request it, and Facebook makes a lot of money selling targeted ads to us. "Well you clearly rent it" replied Senator Cornyn (R-TX) at 1:39:00.
Time markers and notes below.
--*--*--*--
IV. Timing Markers of C-Span Zuckerberg Footage
The congressional hearing covered a lot of material. Another point unprepared journalists may miss is, while they're supposed to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, reporting scribes may mistake the CEO as the afflicted and the punching bag senators as the comfortable. While we have Zuckerberg, let's get clear on what congress covered today and what they can cover tomorrow.
Hour One
0:00 Senator Grassley (R-IA) opened the hearing.
4:50 Senator Thune (R-ND) opens with statistics Facebook had more users than every country on earth has people, except for China. Four times as many users as the population of the U.S. He said the hearing would focus on "Data Privacy" "Security" the recently violated "FTC" consent decree and something about "jurisdictions."
data scrape
dark web
9:50 Senator Feinstein (D-CA)
14:25 Grassley
19:44 Senator Nelson (D-FL)
29:30 Grassley
35:00 Nelson
40:00 Thune
46:00 Feinstein
51:00 Senator Hatch (R-UT)
56:00 Senator Cantwell (D-WA)
Hour Two
1:02:00 Senator Wicker (R-MS)
1:07:00 Senator Leahy (D-VT)
1:13:00 Senator Graham (R-SC)
1:18:00 Senator Klobuchar (D-MN)
1:24:00 Senator Blunt (R-MT)
1:29:00 Senator Durbin (D-IL)
1:34:00 Senator Cornyn (R-TX)
1:41:00 Senator Blumenthal (D-CT)
1:46:00 Senatur Cruz (R-TX)
Hour Three
2:04:00 Senator Whitehouse (R-RI)
2:11:00 Senator Lee (R-UT)
2:16:00 Senator Schatz (D-HI)
2:21:00 Senator Fischer (R-NE)
2:27:00 Senator Coons (D-DE)
2:33:00 Senator Sasse (R-NE)
2:39:00 Senator Markey (D-MA)
2:45:00 Senator Flake (R-AZ)
2:50:00 Senator Hirano (D-HI)
2:56:00 Senator Sullivan (R-AK)
Hour Four
3:02:00 Senator Udall (D-NM)
3:08:00 Senator Moran (R-KS)
3:14:00 Senator Booker (D-NJ)
3:10:00 Senator Heller (R-NV)
3:36:00 Senator Peters (D-MI)
3:45:00 Senator Tillis (R-NC)
3:50:00 Senator Harris (D-CA)
3:33:00 Senator Kennedy (R-LA)
4:00:00 Senator Baldwin (D-WI)
4:09:00 Senator Johnson (R-WI)
3:50:00 Senator Hassan (D-NH)
More Links:
4/13/2018: Why the Cooling Saucer Senate Appeared 'So Old' at Zuckerberg Hearings: offlinereport.net
Congress allowed Mark Zuckerberg "to testify without being sworn in" unlike past oil and tobacco executives. twitter.com/TheBeatWithAri
This work by AJ Fish is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
