Creating falsified contentment (learned helplessness)—through entitlement benefits combined with suppressive manipulation, emotional coercion, and reverse psychology—results in feelings of inferiority, thereby achieving the perfect societal mind control: manipulism.

Just the footfall will churn up the wet turf.

After paying out chain, we swung clear, but our anchors were no doubt afoul of hers.

What brings the tears to other eyes But freezes them in mine, And what bechills another heart Fans into flame my own.