‘Want to know all about flying monkeys? Here are all the traits of these kinds of people that you need to know.

When we say flying monkeys, we don’t mean those from the Wizard of Oz. However, it is where the term got its meaning.

So, what are flying monkeys? They’re followers and minions who do the bullies’ dirty work. In other words, they’re those your bullies have recruited to attack you.

Therefore, in this post, you will learn all about the flying monkeys that bullies recruit to pursue you. Once you know all about those worker bees, you will recognize them when you see them. And, you will be able to better protect yourself from them.

This post is all about flying monkeys so that you can recognize them, see through their behavior, and protect yourself from them.

Flying Monkeys

It’s the bullies’ foot soldiers who do the dirty work of their leader. Why? For several reasons. The ringleader is too scared to fight their own battles, and the flying monkeys are slaves who do the work to get rewarded with something.

Having their strings pulled

Believe it or not, it’s easy to tell when someone is being controlled. Many nefarious actors use gaslighting to keep their followers in line. If you pay attention, you’ll always know if a person you know is being told what to say, what not to say, what to do, and what not to do.

If you are a target of bullying, you more than likely suffer at the request of a powerful ringleader. You may have had friends and allies at first. However, you’ve found that slowly, those friends and allies have only disappeared.

And now, you have no one left who will associate with you, much less help you. Do you know why?

It’s because your bullies have gotten to them somehow. Maybe they have either threatened to retaliate and harm them if they have any more to do with you. Or they may have given them good incentives to turn against you- social and financial perks, promotions, and rewards.

So, what are the traits of flying monkeys? How can you tell when a person is compromised?

1. Flying Monkeys:

They flip-flop back and forth.

This person will say whatever they’re told to say, often leading them to flip-flop. They say one thing, then later say the opposite. They say whatever they think will benefit them, or, at least, keep them out of hot water.

2. They say anything they think people want to hear, no matter how irrational and foolish they may sound.

Again, this goes back to flip-flopping. And bullies often change narratives. Therefore, their puppets must change with their puppet masters and handlers. This keeps them in the bullies’ good graces.

3. They go with whatever the prevailing narrative or belief is.

These worker bees will fall in line quickly. You can always tell a follower because they stay in lock step with their “masters.”

They quote whatever is popular and say whatever is popular. Moreover, they wear whatever the bullies are wearing and act however they must to stay on the bandwagon.

In short, they’re a bunch of wannabes trying haplessly to fit into the bullies’ world of morals and standards.

4. They’re chameleons.

This person will behave one way toward this person and another toward that person. Understand that this person has no personality of their own.

They conform to this group and that. They change personalities like a model changes clothes.

5. Flying Monkeys:

They can’t think for themselves.

Again, these idiots never think for themselves. They only flex and bend to anything others tell them. They allow others to suck them into the groupthink.

God help them if they ever had an original thought. Or worse, took a stand (gasp!).

6. They’re easily led and influenced.

Life must really suck if you need someone to hold your hand to make decisions. However, some people would rather be controlled than go out on a limb and choose for themselves.

They believe it’s better to have security than freedom. In their minds, freedom and independence are too risky because they might fail!

Being your own person indeed involves a lot of risk. Independence and free thought invite enmity and risk of failure.

However, you must understand that anyone who doesn’t like you because you prefer to be yourself is more than likely a controlling person. They may be an abuser, a bully, or a narcissist.

Only those who like to control others hate those who are independent and who think for themselves.

So, why would you want to please those types of people? Why would you choose a puppet master? Understand that only objects have owners.

You’re not an object, you’re a person with your own thoughts, feelings, opinions, and beliefs. So, keep it that way!

Flying Monkeys:

It’s best to let these kinds of friends go.

Let’s say that you are a target, and your friends and allies have turned their backs on you. It’s best that you have nothing more to do with them and find new friends.

You don’t want friends who are too weak to have your back when the chips are down. Trust me on that one.

You should choose strong friends and allies – people who aren’t too chicken to have your back and are more than happy to go to bat for you. That’s what real friends do!

These types of friends are hard to find. Fair-weather friends are a dime a dozen. Know that you deserve better!

Are they People or Sheople?

Sheople, sheeple, however you choose to spell the word, are people who are easily led. They are blind followers who are willing to be led to their own slaughter.

You often hear the word in toxic government politics. However, you also meet them in office and school politics. Not only do politicians use their followers, but bullies in the workplace and at school deploy them, too.

And most people are, in fact, toxic conformists. A person who thinks for themselves is a rare jewel, especially during the last few years. I’ll bet you’ve wondered why most people bow down and conform. I know I certainly have.

Flying Monkeys:

No one is born to follow.

None of us is born to follow. The adults in our lives may raise us that way. Moreover, we receive subliminal messages through the news and shows we watch and the material we read.

However, it’s up to us to dig deep and sort out the crap from the facts. Moreover, it’s also up to us whether to follow society’s standards or to follow our own path in life.

At the end of the day, we choose whether to live free or remain shackled to the whims of others. We decide whether to give in to bullies and peer pressure.

7. Flying monkeys don’t trust themselves to make their own decisions.

Why? They suffer from insecurity and lack the confidence to make their own decisions. So they take the easy way out and allow others to make decisions for them.

These types lack direction and are either easily bullied. Therefore, they allow themselves to be controlled and manipulated. In essence, they are slaves to the whims of others.

8. They are lazy.

Those who are lazy don’t want to work for anything; they want everything done for them. Therefore, they’ll do anything to keep from having to work for anything, even if it means that they relinquish their personal freedom.

So, they rely on others or the system to provide for them instead of providing for themselves. However, what they don’t realize is that they open themselves up to being ordered around and told what to do.

They accept being told how they should live their lives. Even worse, they open themselves up to being abused and taken advantage of.

Understand that the rewards of compliance are only crumbs, and anything free comes at a price. And that price is often your independence and autonomy.

No one will give you anything free, and if you can’t repay them with material goods. However, you will repay them with services or with your personal freedom.

9. Flying monkeys need someone to hold their hand.

They’re little five-year-olds in adult bodies. Again, they don’t trust themselves to make good decisions because they fear they’ll fail. Therefore, they feel they must have someone else guide them through the maze of life.

They don’t understand that to give up responsibility for their own lives is to give away their power. And, in most cases, bullies only lead them off a cliff!

10. They are gullible.

They believe anything others tell them. Why? Because they can’t think for themselves, so they adopt others’ beliefs just to fit in and be accepted.

They’ll go with any narrative you give them. They allow themselves to be lied to and used for someone else’s purposes.

11. They are dependent.

They either can’t, think they can’t, or don’t know how to do anything for themselves. So they rely on an authority to provide all their wants and needs.

And to keep getting their wants and needs met, these sheople will bow down and submit to the will of the person supplying them, even at their own expense.

12. They are hopeless.

Many flying monkeys are incompetent and ineffective. They don’t believe in themselves and, deep down inside, feel powerless. On their own, they can’t do anything right.

Many feel that they’re failures, and sadly, many of them are. So, they look to a so-called leader to do everything for them. What they don’t realize is that by looking to this person, they only make themselves subject to that person.

13. Flying monkeys are slaves.

By exchanging their freedom for security, they become servants. By caving into peer pressure, they become beholden to bullies and abusers.

Having someone else do everything for you means being obligated to them. Totally obligated! And because they’re completely useless and can’t take care of themselves, they must have someone else to keep them up.

And anything the other person tells them to do, they will do. Why? Because they know that if they don’t obey, the benefits they’ve been enjoying will stop.

However, who’s to say that they won’t stop anyway? What if the person decides to cut the sheep off once they’ve served their purpose? Then what?

14. They are fearful.

They are believers of fearmongers. They’re also afraid that they might have to work for something. Thirdly, they’re afraid that if they don’t conform, the benefits they enjoy will be cut off.

They are easily intimidated by those in power, so they do everything they’re told to stay in the good graces of the person or people at the top. Everything they do is out of fear!

15. Blind loyalty.

Blind loyalty means being loyal without really knowing why. They may think they know why. But, do they?

Blind loyalty is to follow someone without question. In that, flying monkeys continue to follow them even when they misbehave or cause harm to others. Instead of looking at them with a critical eye, they prioritize the relationship over the truth.

Followers even place the relationship before their own well-being.

In Conclusion:

Here’s the thing that flying monkeys don’t realize or refuse to accept. Once they’ve served their purpose, the bully will discard them like used toilet paper. Why? Because they are only tools.

They think that they’re joining a group with a cause. They believe that they’re really a part of something cool or important. However, what is really happening is that they’re being used. And it’s sad. Again, flying monkeys are only tools – a means to an end.

This post is all about flying monkeys, their personality traits, and their purpose so that you can recognize them, protect yourself from them, and pity them.

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