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[–]TRP Vanguard: "Dark Triad Expert"IllimitableMan5 points6 points7 points 9 years ago* (1 child) | Copy Link
You want another show demonstrating the 48 laws of power/dark triad at work?
There's a new show called "Power" that 50 cent aka Curtis Jackson executive produced, now 50 is very relevant in dark triad related study due to his upbringing, where he started at and where's he at now, he's probably one of the most prolific and successful DTs in modern media and an RP role model for anyone wanting to follow the DT path to success, orphaned by a single mother who died when he about 8 or 9, having no college education and selling coke when he was in school he's worth over a hundred million now. He also worked with Robert Greene on 50th Law which for those who don't know is basically the 48 laws from the perspective of the streets.
In "Power" the protagonist's wife in particular is very interesting, she's trying to keep tabs on her dark triad alpha husband (Omari Hardwick - Cocaine wholesaler) who she has a kid with, by seducing his driver (young 18 year old kid) and using that leverage over the driver to get information about the movements of her husband. It shows female manipulation, their untrusting nature, how they will abuse their sexuality to get what they want (she winds the window down in the limo numerous times, strips, and start masturbating while the driver watches, then when she's finished she licks her lips, looks him dead in the eye in the mirror and does the window back up - that's how she goes about seducing him.)
She also has a very red pill conversation with her mother where her mother says because her husband is a "drug dealer" (crude terminology for someone way above street level) that she'll never see a dime if she chooses to divorce him because drug money isn't declared to the IRS. The protagonists partner and best friend Tommy is another dark triad but a different shade of DT, where "Ghost" (that's Omari's character name) is what I'd call a high-functioning highly intelligent machiavellian, Tommy is more of your loose cannon dark tetrad, sadistic, sets one dude on fire and then puts him out with a fire extinguisher as a method of torture. He is more violent and less intelligent and is really more about the glory of violence in and of itself rather than using it as a methodology only as and when required.
I've already given away a lot of spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen the show, but I can't sing its praises without giving examples of why it's worth watching. In terms of observing DT and machiavellian dynamics you can tell this is the brainchild of someone who's seen some fucked up shit (50 cent - curtis jackson) because a lot of the shit on there is too gritty and real, it's incredibly believable shit. Check it.
If you follow 50 and his projects, watch his interviews and etc, he also gives very RP advice. For example, I saw one interview of him years ago talking about how important lifting is for motivation and remaining focussed. In another interview he talks about how you have to be the person with the least fear in the room when in negotiations and how he's always confident in people's inability to hurt him as nothing could hurt him as much as losing his mother and being alone afterwards as a kid did. The guy is a pure street-bred natural. He also has some ridiculous superficial charm. A cursory glance of his instagram reveals massive narcissism. If I met the guy today and he told me he was a high functioning sociopath I wouldn't be surprised. His show and he are both excellent case studies for people interested in this area of TRP.
[–]VegasHostTre0 points1 point2 points 9 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link
It's an alpha statement but please don't mistake Frank Underwood for alpha though. His wife dictates the frame of the relationship "He promised me I would never be bored." That sentence and the fact that his wife is stroking the cock of a man on his deathbed
[–]Senior Contributorexit_sandman1 point2 points3 points 9 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link
They've an open relationship.
And he's bisexual, so he is probably a lot more understanding.
[–]chakravanti930 points1 point2 points 9 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
When you're done having children (or not at all as in this case) you won't find sexual moors as applicable.
When your wife is old and used up and your primary value in keeping her around is the status you earn by being in a first marriage with a woman who understands the imprtance of discretion the only moors you awknowledge are the ones the media forces you to anyway.
As long as there's no public spectacle, why should Frank begrudge his wife vampirizing the last essence of a lifelong orbiter? If anything, his dominance of Lillith is simply a more advanced form of Alpha-esque posturing amongst the quiet knowing.
Even his bisexuality is paradoxically not emasculating in the eyes of the knowing. There is an inherent intimacy in vowing to be a human shield. A masculinity of function that the Man is providing in Frank's stead. Rather than give his own life for his wife, he has found man willing to do just that for thw both of them via status.
That kind of intimacy makes Frank the feminine sexually whilst not detracting from his masculinity. The act manifesting that is more a ritual of contract than any statment on Frank's sexuality.
At a certain point in progression in the laws of power an individual finds ones sexuality to be irreverent to gender as a matter of course in competent esoteric relationships.
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