David Ferrie, a Quick Analysis of a Manipulator and Groomer:
√ In Libra, David Ferrie is....quite the interesting character. He's hired onto the assassination plot by Win Everett and T-Jay Mackey as the guy who will slowly and subliminally coax Lee Harvey Oswald into entering the plan to stage an assassination on John F. Kennedy. I forget the page where, but he's described in the book as someone that can really get into someone's head and brainwash them. The primary way in which he much achieve this, of course, includes many elements of emotional manipulation, and grooming. The points and examples that were made during in-class discussion were pretty thought-provoking, so I'll be recalling and expanding on my thoughts and notes I took from that discussion. The first thing that groomers and common manipulators tend to do is establish a friendly relationship with their victims to pose as people that they can trust, confide in, and open up to. From there, that acts as an easier gateway to controlling them emotionally in order to ...
