Can we ban this archaic phrase from FR? It’s not intuitive to anything and wholly contrived; it seems that EVERYONE feels the need to use this lamely trendy word.
I’m catching on that David gets all his material from FR.
Gaslighting has been a running theme here for weeks!
I was thinking of: There has never been any proof of significant election fraud in the US.
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“95% of the masses don’t even know that they are being gaslighted”
Oh BULL SHEVIC, of course they know! They just don’t care because the programming is good. As long as the media sings sweet songs in their ear they’re happy.
He explains it very well. The word may be tiresome, but the psychological manipulation is being used quite well on the unwoke masses.
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For a “trendy” word gaslighting has been around a hell of a long time. I’m 62 and I’ve been seeing it all my life. It doesn’t compare to ‘at the end of the day’ since the latter is just temporizing and can be dropped in almost anywhere while the former is laser specific in the con text that it is being used. Frankly I’d nominate “stay safe” for a ban.
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I’ve seen several explanations of what the term means in reference to the gaslights in the house, and none of them so far match the understanding I got when I watched the movie (the one with Ingrid Bergman).
The husband does not turn down the gas in the lights just to lie about it. The husband tricks the wife into thinking she it crazy so that when she DOES notice the gas going down, he can also say that was an illusion.
The gas goes down because he has turned it on in the attic. He targeted her for her wealth which is hidden in the attic. So when he attempts to look for it, he doesn’t want her to catch on. Smart guy; he tricked his wife into writing off the one thing she might notice about his shenanigans. THAT is what makes gaslighting so insidious and scary - it’s not usually about the thing itself, it’s about getting the person to doubt all things wholesale.
I think the term is very useful.
When I saw this movie, it freaked me out to know how simple it is to manipulate someone’s perception of reality.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” -John Adams
More like 250 million, but who's counting?
Whoever the author is, he/she is absolutely correct. We are definitely being gaslighted. Wake up and see the world as it is, not how social media wants us to believe.
The author is incorrect about this aspect. In the play and film, the lights are dimming because the husband is using the gas lamps elsewhere in the home, which causes the dimming.
A minor but relevant detail. The husband is looking for expensive jewelry in the locked attic, while allegedly not at home. The activities/noises/dimming are part of the psy-op to disguise the real activity.
This is what the democRATS are doing.... a psy-op to have you question your sanity, while they destroy the country.
The first phrase in the paragraph at the end of your blog hyping Whatfinger makes no sense:
I looked up this film on Netflix, thinking I’d add it to my queue.
There are two versions: the original in 1940 and a remake in 1944. The 1944 version stars Ingrid Bergman and I guess it’s the most popular.
But I chose the 1940 version because of the reviews written about it. I’ll see I guess.
Excellent.
Read later.