Type 0 - The Indifferent
A person who believes something and has little to no doubts about it because they are generally incurious, underinformed, and unconcerned with the area of information, logic or experience that might lead them to know they are being deceived. As many deceptions one might face are identifiable as a likely deception using only one's own life and past experience, the type 0 won't likely be very introspective. No coercion is therefore necessary.
Type 1 - The Unbowed
A person who, when approached with a deception, is readily able to identify it as such, and does not submit to it despite any coercive pressure applied. This person is not deceived. This person also bears the brunt of coercive harm.
Type 2 - The Cowed
When approached with deception that is paired with coercion to acknowledge the deception as true, a type 2 would acknowledge that the deception is true in order to avoid the coercion, but not accept the deception as truth internally due to having the information, awareness or introspectiveness in the deception's area to identify it as a deception. This can cause stress, as not only does it involve potential damage to one's self-image due to acknowledgement that one said "uncle", bowed to authority, or took "the coward's way out", but the inner wear and tear of maintaining a lie in the presence of pro-coercion friends, family or co-workers is damaging to one's psyche. However, the type 2 is only partially correct about having taken a cowardly or dishonorable path, as it actually requires a certain amount of courage to face the facts of what they are doing as opposed to denying it altogether, which leads to
Type 3 - The Enlightened
When approached with deception that is paired with coercion, type 3 might at first resist it as a type 1, but once the application of coercion enters the picture, chooses to accept the deception as truth, having been "convinced". The convincing occurs not because the information, logic or experience they had that led them to accurately identify the deception has been addressed and overturned, rather, it is a mechanism to defend their ego from the damage to it that would occur in a type 2. By deeming themselves convinced as opposed to coerced, they are not submitting. They are not saying "uncle". They are not "taking the coward's way out". Rather, they are simply more enlightened than before. This inversion of a type 2 is then free to believe that they are courageous for having challenged their preconceived notions and followed "the facts" despite never addressing their prior hesitations. This is, in effect, the religious experience, wherein one walks by faith, not by sight, but so deep in denial where one denies that any faith has been applied at all. It is not uncommon for a type 1 to become a type 2, and then a type 3 as coercion takes its toll.
The type 3 is the one who, at the end of 1984, loved Big Brother. Conversion from a type 2 to a type 3 is a great relief. You are not cowardly, you are brave. You are not cowed, you are enlightened. The belief is sincere, because the mental mechanisms that defend this belief are the strongest in the human psyche: those that defend the ego.
In reality, the type 3 is the most dangerous. Should the coercion lead from submission to active participation in evil acts, all other types have mechanisms by which to stop themselves....<<<Read More>>>...
