The Erosion Playbook

The Erosion Playbook

This is how we reach a place where elected officials challenge election results, become obscenely corrupt, or get away with genocide.

They are masters of micro-erosion, planting tiny little seeds of doubt, watering them, telling lies, embellishing truths, and doing all this on repeat, to the point that truth and fiction are intertwined, making it hard for people to separate one from the other.

It is the toolbox of deception, grooming and spellcasting.

That first little lie. That first little doubt. That first cheat.

Their prey – always the lost, the broken, the insecure.

To awaken to their tricks means we have to awaken to how we have been so easily seduced. This can be traumatising to an ego. Or the story upon which we have built a life.

Often, our refusal to awaken is because we do not want to face our vulnerability to being seduced. We have to admit to ourselves our own desperation and longing, fed by the master seducer.

Easier is it to keep the spell alive. Or so we think.

The cost – everything we long for that can only be achieved when we have grown our backbone and can stand in the full light of the groomer, seducer, charismatic leader and know exactly what they are seeking to do.

Published November 2nd 2026. Photo taken November 2nd 2023

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