HACK-neyed Epidemic

Movie ‘The Departed”… Martin Sheen to Leonardo DiCaprio, “Do you want to be a cop, or do you want to appear to be a cop? It's an honest question. A lot of guys just want to appear to be cops. Gun, badge, pretend they're on TV.”

The biggest and longest running “Reality Show” is the Life itself. “The Person inside of his Skin is mostly different from the one outside of his skin”. Everybody seemingly not wanting to be somebody but wanting to appear to be somebody because this appearance has “survival”, “validation”, “recognizable”, “promote-able” values. During the process of self-development while building the one outside of his/her skin, a huge amount of conditioning or programming takes place from the person himself. And when this person goes about transacting with the World, he tries to avoid anybody defeating/hacking into his conditioning/programming/belief system.

This brings us to another universal phenomenon where we are constantly hacking into the others’ conditioning/programming/belief system. In the questions we ask, the body language we read, the reading between the words, the debates, discussions, etc, most of the time the objective is to hack into the other person’s belief system (conditioning/programming) and plant one’s own belief system as "superior" or "substantial" for some motive.

But not all the times, all hacking is bad. Well we do have phenomenon of Ethical Hacking, which is for the good in general... with a purpose...benevolent.

The next time we are hacking …let’s check whether it’s hacking type “Ethical” or “Survival”.