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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The benefit of this parental approach is that reinforces the cognitive dominance of the parent without coercion. The downside is that it probably accelerates the evolution of the child\u2019s escape tactics. They think more, reveal less. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>\u201cPeople demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.\u201d </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>\u2015 Søren Kierkegaard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Steve Smith <sasmyth@swcp.com><br><b>Date: </b>Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 10:49\u202fAM<br><b>To: </b>friam@redfish.com <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] satire collapse<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p>I'm not very up on Dexter, the show nor character but I have the general outline. I often think that my awareness of lying (with words, actions, affect) as a *choice* put me on the edge between being a sociopath and being "far from it"... had I felt that lying was a necessity or in some way ends/means justified I could easily have put whatever talents I might have for persuasion or misdirection in acutely anti/a/mis/dys-social modes. <o:p></o:p></p><p>Or maybe I do and am in denial... and those who I haven't drawn into my web of lies simply don't see it either. Being human is tricky... <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>On 3/26/26 11:08 am, Marcus Daniels wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Steve writes:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>\u201c<span style='color:#212121'>My parents were acutely good at not allowing me to project much with<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>them manipulatively... they seemed to *almost always* actually respond<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>to what I was thinking/feeling rather than any actions or affects I<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>might have tried to generate to get a specific response from them. I<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>very much appreciate that style of levelness, for all the ways it<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>interfered with my childhood deviousness.\u201d</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Lol.. Dexter Episode 204: See Through<br><br>\u201cHarry tells young Dexter to lie to the psychiatrist, to think about what he's going to say, but to say the exact opposite of what he's thinking.\u201d</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>.- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-..<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom <a href="https://bit.ly/virtualfriam">https://bit.ly/virtualfriam</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>to (un)subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>archives: 5/2017 thru present <a href="https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/">https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 <a href="http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/">http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>