REH wrote:
> Today, even billionaires talk like they are poor. It's disgusting.
> With them it's a strategy that the police and psycho-therapists use
> called "gaslighting."
Well! Never heard the term "gaslighting". Wikipedia says it's
appeared frequently on several TV shows and:
Gaslighting has been used colloquially since at least the late
1970s to describe efforts to manipulate someone's sense of
reality....
[Weinshel & Wallerstein] explore a variety of reasons why the
victims may have 'a tendency to incorporate and assimilate what
others externalize and project onto them', and conclude that
gaslighting can be 'a very complex, highly structured
configuration which encompasses contributions from many elements
of the psychic apparatus'.
Guess I don't watch enough TV.
But wait! Isn't that just what TV (in highly engineered particular)
and mass media in general do? Isn't that what "marketing" as it's
practiced to day is all about? "Police and psycho-therapists" may use
the technique in a finely targeted manner but the media do it en
masse. Individual targeting involves personal observation of the
victim. Media replace personal observation with statistical
parameters so it's less efficient. But given the bell-curve
distribution of psycho-social variables, it's more than efficient
enough to distort reality for society.
A reasonable surmise is that the fearful/hostile response to the
internet of certain powerful elites is that it can't be coerced to
implement the gaslighting mechanism, to stay on-message with the
synthetic Consumer Reality. Insofar as the net becomes advertising
dependent and insofar as that advertising reaches the eyeballs of the
public, the net can to some extent be entrained in the gaslighting
agenda. (Do you still want to support JoCI with advertising, Mike?
;-)
Of course, if the Real Reality(tm) -- access to food, shelter,
clothing, medical care -- is disintegrating, that may not matter much
any more. Or maybe it matters much more than it did in better times.
Thanks for the new word & concept, Ray.
- Mike
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