Social Falsification

In many practices, there are points at which one person has very obviously demonstrated dominance over his oponent/mark/dealer/target. These points, which I have termed D.O.D.s are essential to proper C-Artistry, and can be exceedingly useful in PU as well. By defining your target’s frame, you control her desire. By dominating a dealer, you can keep him from calling your bluffs. By making your mark rely on you, you can fleece him with more finese. These statements mark the basic principle that will be dealt with in the next several posts. These posts, however, will be theory-light, and geared towards practical application of DODs, as well as the bits of theory expressed so far in this blog.

Verbal peacocking is a creation of my own…something based upon personal experience and the weaker version of the Sappir-Whorf hypothesis. In general, the idea is this: What you say, and specifically, the words you use, define who you are, in the eyes of a target. To some, this can mean as little as speaking properly, politely, and acting refined. However, to myself, and the entirety of the Liar’s Underground, this should mean something much, much bigger: By altering your speech habits, you can create a chameleon-esk illusion, melding into any social group you wish — provided, of course, that you know the language.

The process of masking your speech to match that of a subculture is called masking, and is often done in C-artistry. If one wishes to pretend to be a high-flying business executive, one has to practice speaking in circular, non-specific language: An executive only gives direct answers to those he considers peers, and that kind of directness must only exist between the artist and his mark. Similarly, in PU, a person who wishes to be thought of as alpha has to talk like an alpha of whatever group they’re targeting: a grunge alpha talks very differently from a frat boy alpha, but both talk alpha: For example, alphas often act somewhat narcissistic, centering statements around themselves, even when the statement doesn’t really have anything to do with them! Key to this are phrases such as “in my opinion” and “as I see it”. These phrases are narcissistic, and very dominantly claim a person’s attention. Again, this form of verbal adaption is called masking, and is the first principle of Verbal Peacocking.

The second principle is what older people might refer to as “spunk” or “piz-zaz”. It is, in essence, finding words and phrases that stick out in the memory of your target, in the hopes of seperating yourself from the horde of drooling AFCs who are trying to buy her drinks or food. We’ll call it Flare. In my own personal experience (see? Alpha-masking at work), if you’re working with a lower-middle-class crowd, you can usually get away with use of specialized profanity. Words such as “fucknut” and “cumsucking-snot bubble” have worked wonders in breaking the ice with women, and the associated uniqueness can be transfered over to a general sense of uniqueness with some ease. For more educated groups, a few easily memorable quips or sayings (learn them in advance, and ALTER THEM! Ripping off the ideas of others, without your own input, is highly discouraged) will suffice. Again, this principle, which works by creating keywords and phrases that attract attention to yourself, is called Flare.

The third and final principle of Verbal Peacocking is Verbal Fluidity. Stutters and word blocking are horrible for your image. A true alpha speaks clearly (while making eye contact), fluidly, and does not say anything useless. An entire entry on how to improve your Verbal Fluidity will come later, and will go much more in depth on the principle. For now, however, take that it means improving the speed and accuracy of your responses, while nixing stuttering, word-blocking, and logic loopholes. As with the others, let me repeat that this principle is that of Verbal Fluidity, and consists of the speed and accuracy of speech.

Any of these three principles can be used and developed, individually, to create some amount of memorable individuality. Put together, they can sear your name into a target’s memory, and can almost guarentee a close, be it while picking up women, or conning marks.  Later, I shall go into detail on all of these.

For now, I’m your slightly irregular host, Lodinkinni, and this has been another presentation of Social Falsification: Tales from the Liars’ Underground.

In the simplest sense, peacocking is a term brought into the underworld by PUAs, to describe dressing in such a way as to stand out in the field. Now, like the male peacock, PUAs who use peacocking are using it to attract females, with the same wide variety of success and failure that the animals that spawned the term achieve.

For this blog, however, we’re going to slightly redefine peacocking by splitting it into two terms. The first term, visual peacocking, is the traditional peacocking described above. The second, verbal peacocking, is a term concocted in my own head, to describe a form of peacocking thats a bit more subtle: the use of specific words, phrases, and colloquialisms to set yourself apart from the run of the mill AFCs/norms…and even apart from your fellow PUAs/C-Artists, if you get good enough at the art (Sorry, Cheaters…but attracting attention to yourselves is a BAD idea…so y’all are left out, here).

When used properly, both forms of peacocking have the potential to raise you up high above the crowd, and make you desirable to women or a mark. When used improperly, you can face ridicule and humiliation at the hands of your rivals, your friends, and even your targets.The next two entries will be devoted to the basics of each kind of peacocking, and how to work them into your routines and approaches. Below are some links regarding the traditional meaning of peacocking.

For now, I’m your host Lodinkinni, and this has been another post from Social Falsifications: Tales from the Liar’s Underground.

Recommended Websites:
The Urban Dictionary: Peacocking: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=peacocking
FastSeduction.com: Peacocking: http://www.fastseduction.com/cgi-bin/fswiki.cgi?Peacocking
Ladderwiki: Peacocking: http://ladderwiki.com/wiki/Peacocking

Like the PUA, the C-Artist has a much more varied poker face than the traditional one. He must project a persona that will fool a mark, and will cause the mark to trust him. However, a PUA faces little more than a slap, should he screw up — a C-Artist, depending on his wares, and his mode of sales, may face anything up to and including his own death. Thus, the poker face becomes EXTREMELY important for his survival, as it is the most necessary tool for bluffing (to be discussed later, on its own).

There are actually two methods for practicing the C-Artist poker face, and which one is needed depends on the type of C-Artist. For Air Salesmen, the practicing is quite simple:

Step 1.) Watch a movie…any movie, really, so long as the characters are believable and modern.

Step 2.) Choose one of the characters…preferably one who you don’t resonate with at all…if you’re a skinny twerp who’s shy as a girl on her first period, pick the loud, bolsterous fat guy….but find a persona thats very, very, VERY far from your own. This will be your persona, and your poker face, for the main event.

Step 3.) Go to bumblefuck. Wherever it may be, it must be a no-nothing town, with little to no chance of you ever meeting someone that may actually be important in later schemes. Your objective here is to get 20 people interested in (insert type) of insurance. The catch? You must do it as the persona you picked up for step 2. Now, if you want to make it challenging, make sure the type of insurance is something useless…if you’re in a desert, flood insurance…if you’re in the NorthEast US, Earthquake insurance, etc, etc.

Step 4.) Continue finding people (on the streets, in stores, hell, door to door if you want), and trying to impress them, until you’ve met the qualification for your skill level:

Beginner goal: 20 People say yes and take down your number (A FAKE NUMBER—NOT A REAL ONE).
Intermediate (lower): 20 People, with a string of 3 in a row.
Intermediate (higher): 20 People, with a string of 5 in a row.
Advanced: 20 People, with a string of 10, and no more than 50 Approaches (restart count if you go over)
Mastery: 50 Person String. Start counting from scratch if someone doesn’t have interest, or if you break character.
Godlike: Actually take down SSNs, Phone Numbers, and Credit Card Numbers…use this drill as a way to fleece more people, and get better while doing it. 15 Person streak.

Now, of course, you have to remember to look for your mark’s interest. If they aren’t interested, and are just shooing you away by taking the number, then you’ve failed.

Dirt Salesmen:

You guys actually have a much easier way to practice your poker face: Sales. Your job is to pose as those most hated of demons, a door to door salesman. You will get all of your ‘merchandise’ at a dollar store, and try to sell it to whatever poor folk inhabit your bumblefuck.

Step 1 & 2.) Same as before, find a movie, choose a persona, its you.

Step 3.) Go to a dollar store. Find nice, compact things that you can sell from a briefcase.

Step 4.) Mark up the price by the following chart:

Beginner: 5 x the initial price of the item.
Intermediate (low): 8x the initial price of the item.
Intermediate (high):  10x  the initial price of the item.
Advanced: 15x the initial price of the item.
Mastery: 25x the initial price of the item.
God-Like: 50x the initial price. And a Catch: Pretend that you’re taking orders for larger quantities, and that these are just your sample wares. If you can sell a 1 dollar item at 50 times its price, and get people to invest money in multiples of the item, then the practice has more or less paid off.
Step 5.) Get at least 20 people to buy at your increased price, while maintaining your persona.

Thats all for the practice routines today, folks. Tune in next time when I report on this past week’s installment of the Pick Up Game.

For now, I’m your host, Lodinkinni, and this has been another presentation of ‘Social Falsification: Tales From The Liar’s Underground’.  Good Luck, And Good Night.

There is nothing so universally necessicary as the poker face. No matter what form of lying you practice, or what type of social manipulation you’re working (they’re both the same thing, really. Pick whichever one your conscience prefers), the poker face is always, always, ALWAYS needed.

Now, there are some misconceptions about the poker face, to be sure. In the minds of some, its a cold, clear tactic, devoid of any and all expression. To others, its any directly misleading face, that stops the true nature of a person’s intent from being visible. Everyone agrees, however, that a poker face, however you define it, is key to keeping your mark/target/HB11 from realizing exactly what you’re up to.

Pick Up Artists: Your poker face is the face of your persona. When you walk out there, exuding confidence, a poker player’s poker face isn’t going to help you much. But making your visible emotions and reactions match that personality you’ve worked so hard to obtain: priceless.

C-Artists: Your poker face may be emotionally charged, and really varies depending on what you’re selling. If your clients see you as being anything other than what they want to see you as, you’re toast.

Cheaters: Yours is the original, the basic poker face. No emotion: Stone Cold. You don’t want anyone to know what you’re up to, or know that you have any part in the roulette wheel stopping at 7 red every round. You just jumped on it and got lucky. That hand of 7 aces? Yeah. Gotta keep your hand up, your eyes narrow, and your voice silent.

I’m your host Lodinkinni, and this has been another presentation of ‘Social Falsification: Tales From The Liar’s Underground.’ Our next few posts will be something of a departure from the norm, but once they’ve been completed, we’ll resume with ‘Practicing the Poker Face.’

On the web, you can find anything. Well, almost anything. C-Artistry is one of the few darker arts that still holds some of its mystery. Only a few scattered sites about the net are visible to the public eye, and most of those are made by amateurs, unconnected to actual communities. Indeed, even Google, the hailed premiere of search engines, only brings up slightly more than a million matches (small, by google standards), most of which lead to either unrelated websites and topics, crime library links and pages that offer help identifying and thwarting insurance fraud. One of the most premiere website links on Google’s page leads to a ‘Rulebook’ for con artists, that further leads to a radical christian website whenever you click on any of its links!

But why is C-Artistry so hard to find online? Well, the major reason is simple: While PU may be considered sleazy by some, and disrespectful to women, its practices are still legal. C-Artistry, on the other hand, falls extremely far on the other side of the bright red line, and, unlike piracy, can lead to a jail sentence pretty quickly. Despite this, there are a good number of books on the subject, and some of them do illuminate the theory pretty well (as I said…I’m a bibliophile, I can’t help it…).

Despite what wealth of books exist, the art and practice of C-Artistry is still something of a huge grey area, and its pretty hard to define a lot of it. You can, however, break C-Artists into two distinct categories, depending on the type of con they specialize in:

Dirt Salesmen: These guys are the tame version of the C-Artist. Actually, they’re also the most honorable, if you can believe it. The main feature of Dirt Salesmanship is that they sell you something, no matter how shitty it is. They’ll dupe you, yes…and you’ll be pissed as hell…but you’ll have something to show for the exuberant amount of cash that you’ve put out. These are the guys that sell you Limex watches, claiming them to be the original, or who’ll sell you a ‘land rich in oil’ …only for you to find that you purchased a garbage dump on the lower east side.

Air Salesmen: These guys, on the other hand, are the type of con artist that you see movies about. They’re the guys who take nothing but their words, or a fictional service, and weave so much hype about it that you’ll just plain give your cash away. Those lottery deals, in other countries, that just need you to set up a bank account, and put 100 dollars into it? Yeah, those guys.

I don’t think I need to say why these people are a part of the Liar’s Underground. They’ve earned their place there, fair and square. This has been my basic introduction to C-Artistry. Trust me, despite how basic this introduction is, it will be one of the most fleshed out areas of this blog

I’m your host, Lodinkinni, and this has been another post of ‘Social Falsification: Tales From The Liar’s Underground.’ I’ll be seeing you next time, when we discuss ‘Cheating: The Dregs Of The Underground.’

Recommended Websites:
NONE: I have yet to find a web community of con artists that meet my approval.

Recommended Reading:
Crimes Of Persuasion By Les Henderson
How To Become A Professional Con Artist By Dennis M. Marlock
How To Cheat At Everything By Simon Lovell