ON the ROAD to SERFDOM … HELL ON EARTH … TOTALITARIAN TRIBULATION …
“GAS-LIGHTING” is NEW “OFFICIAL” GOVERNMENT POLICY …
The term “gaslighting” actually comes from a 1938 play, “Gas Light” (which was turned into a more widely known movie in 1944, “Gaslight”), where a husband manipulates his wife to make her think she’s actually losing her sense of reality so he can commit her to a mental institution and steal her inheritance
Gaslighting is an insidious form of manipulation and psychological control. Victims of gaslighting are deliberately and systematically fed false information that leads them to question what they know to be true, often about themselves. They may end up DOUBTING their memory, their PERCEPTION, and even their SANITY. Over time, a gaslighter’s MANIPULATIONS can grow more complex and potent, making it increasingly difficult for the VICTIM to SEE the TRUTH
Gaslighting is a colloquialism that is loosely defined as “making someone question their own reality”. The term a FALSE NARRATIVE that leads another person or a group of people to DOUBT their OWN PERCEPTIONS and BECOME DISORIENTED or DISTRESSED
Psychologists use the term “gaslighting” to refer to a specific type of MANIPULATION where the manipulator is TRYING to GET someone else (or a group of people) to QUESTION THEIR OWN REALITY, MEMORY or PERCEPTIONS
It may start out with seemingly small offenses. But the problem is that even more-or-less insignificant instances of you questioning your own judgment or reality — thanks to the deliberate intent of someone else — can snowball. You can end up in a cycle of BEING UNABLE to negotiate your daily life in a way where you are CLEAR MINDED, can FOCUS, can MAKE SOUND DECISIONS, and have a SENSE of WELL-BEING …
A gaslighter will initially lie about simple things, but the volume of misinformation soon grows, and the gaslighter may accuse the victim of lying if he or she questions the narrative. They typically deploy occasional positive reinforcement to confuse the victim, but at the same time, they may attempt to turns others against the victim, even their own friends and family, by telling them that the victim is lying or delusiona
Gaslighting happens in personal relationships (think an abusive spouse or, in rarer cases, parent), in professional relationships (a manipulative boss or coworker preying on a subordinate),
There usually tends to be a power dynamic when gaslighting happens, Stern explains. The manipulator holds enough power that “the target of the gaslighting is TERRIFIED to change up [the relationship] or step out of the gaslighting dynamic because the threat of losing that relationship – or the threat of being seen as less than who you want to be seen as to them – is quite a threat,”
IT CAN happen FROM by someone you love and care about (like a spouse or parent) … you’re going to WANT to TRUST and BELIEVE the other person – and the gaslighter may use that AGAINST YOU …
the techniques a gaslighter might use to manipulate someone else can include:
- WITHHOLDING (ommission) (meaning he or she refuses to listen or says they don’t understand)
- COUNTERING (when the abuser questions the gaslightee’s memory of an event)
- BLOCKING-DIVERTING (when the abuser changes the subject or questions the victim’s thinking)
- TRIVIALIZING (making the victim’s needs or feelings seem unimportant)
- FORGETTING-DENIAL (when the manipulator pretends to have forgotten what actually happened or denies something he or she had previously agreed to)
And note that a gaslighter will oftentimes start with something that is true that you might be particularly sensitive about to hook you
look for these WARNING SIGNS and RED FLAGS the type of ABUSE and BULLY-ing might be happening to you (or someone you know):
- You’re constantly second guessing yourself or have trouble making decisions;
- You’re ruminating about a perceived character flaw (like being too sensitive or not a good enough person);
- You feel confused about your relationship (if you find yourself thinking: “I thought I had this great husband, but I just feel crazy all the time” or “I thought I had this charming partner, but then sometimes I feel like I’m losing it when we’re together”);
- In a CONFRONTATION with the person that might be gaslighting you, you feel like you suddenly find yourself in an ARGUMENT you didn’t intend to have, you’re not making progress or you’re saying the same thing over and over again and not being heard;
- You feel FUZZY or UNCLEAR about your thoughts, feelings, or beliefs;
- You’re always APOLOGIZING;
- You’re frequently making EXCUSES for your partner’s behavior;
- You can’t understand why you’re not happy in your own life; or
- You know SOMETHING is WRONG, but you just DON’T KNOW WHAT
- Gaslighting can be psychologically devastating. It violates trust, upends a person’s view that people are generally good, and can make them suspicious of everyone who is close to them. Falling victim to a gaslighter also erodes a person’s trust in themselves and makes them forget what they once valued about themselves; after all, it’s easy to blame themselves for having been too trusting, vulnerable, or dependent. The experience may make a victim never want to be part of a relationship again.
BEING TOLD IT SMELLS LIKE a DUCK … QUACKS LIKE a DUCK … WET LIKE a DUCK … LOOKS LIKE … BUT IT’s NOT a DUCK … it could be a chicken
GOVERNMENT POWER CORRUPTS … “THERE IS NO CLASS ‘FIT’ to RULE …
ORWELL-ian DOUBLE-SPEAK …
POLITICAL ANIMALS … PIGS of POWER … MISLEADING the “SHEEP-le” …
MEMAGOGUES MANIPULATE … MISLEAD … MENDACITY … MALEVOLENCE … for POWER (“vice” camouflaged as “virtue”)
“CORRUPTION” CAMOUFLAGED as “CORRECT-ness” …
PRESIDENTIAL SPOKES-HOLE and “MINISTER of INFORMATION” GOEBBELLS … errr … “PEPPERMINT PATTY” PSAKI STATED …
PSAKI is SET TO “STAR” in a NEW NEW VIDEO SERIES CALLED “GAS-LIGHTING GONE WILD”, IN WHICH SILLY “TOTALITARIAN TWATS” (silly-stupid people) LIE to YOUR FACE and EXPECT YOU to be DUMB ENOUGH to BELIEVE BLATANT LIES and MISREPRESENTATIONS of TRUTH and REALITY …
DIABOLICAL DOUBLE-SPEAK WHICH MISLEADS the MASSES is the NEW NORMAL …
BEIJING-BIDEN ANNOUNCED the HIRING of JOSEF GOEBBELS, to be AIDED by LILY REIFENSTALL to HEAD the NEW MINISTRY of INFORMATION and PROGRESSIVE PROPAGANDA …
The SIRENS of SHRAGRI-LA … SUICIDAL SOCIALIST SHILLS …
ALL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS WILL COME AT NO COST …
GAS-LIGHTING to CAMOUFLAGE COLLECTIVE INSANITY …
IN a RELATED STORY, SATAN DENIED that HE is the POWER IN-CHARGE of this WORLD and STILL the FATHER of LIES … SEEKING WHOM HE MAY to DEVOUR …
P.S.
The Tyrant’s Handbook
We must learn to recognize a tyrant’s easy and alluring bag of tricks.
KEY POINTS
- Becoming a tyrannical jerk is easy since arrogance breeds ignorance and ignorance breeds arrogance.
- To become a tyrant in any context, however local or global, part-time or full-time, people simply pose as heroic no matter what.
- Tyrants demand that other people attend to the meaning of their words, though they IGNORE their meanings focused only on connotations.
- Tyrants are deliberately tone deaf to criticism because they translate all responses to them into evidence of their heroism.
You may be surprised to learn that becoming a tyrant is simple. You don’t have to learn new skills; you just have to remove your CONSCIENCE and you don’t have to do it all at once.
No lobotomy required. Once you start becoming a tyrant, your SELF-AWARENESS, CONSCIENCE, and POWERS of REASONING will ATROPHY and DISAPPEAR. They’ll no longer be necessary. In fact, they’ll only get in the way.
ARROGANCE BREEDS IGNORANCE and IGNORANCE BREEDS ARROGANCE.
You’ll have to PRETEND that you have more self-awareness, conscience, and rationality than everyone else. Don’t worry. Your posture will be a substitute for having them.
Being a tyrant is fun and easy so long as people let you get away with it, which many will—if you do it right. Here’s all there is to it.
- Raise the loudest false alarms. Since desperate times call for desperate measures, declare holy ware and you can get away with murder. Pretend the world is in crisis and you have to save it. Or to keep it local, pretend that your spouse has become evil and you have to heroically rescue yourself from their treachery. One way or another, turn on all the emergency alarms you can imagine. People will back away at the sound of your siren, and your siren will help drown out your conscience.
- Fake objectivity. Talk like you know for certain and everyone else is just guessing (wrongly): Flatly assume that your rivals are biased. Only you see clearly, objectively. The writing on the wall can only be interpreted one way—your way. Everyone else is delusional. Even if your interpretation is a desperate lie, remember that anything’s possible. Your interpretation could still be true. Therefore it is true.
- Spin to the max. Exaggerate your fake crisis. Use superlatives. If you say your rivals are the absolute worst, they can’t say you’re worse. Declare your holy war crisis first and loudest. If they retaliate in kind, you can dismiss them as being defensive, just trying to wriggle out of facing facts. Use loaded terms that make you sound perfect and your rivals sound stupid, evil, biased, and weak. Spin their strengths as weaknesses and your weaknesses as strengths. If they succeed in landing an insult, interpret it as a compliment. If they call you an a**hole, wear it like a badge of honor. No matter what, comb all virtue to you and all vice to anyone who doesn’t align with you.
- Ignore what words mean. Don’t ever think about what words mean, just whether they sound positive or negative. Everything positive is about you. Everything negative is about your rivals. If you have residues of conscience, this may not come naturally. Don’t worry. Once tyranny becomes a reliable habit you’ll stop thinking.
- Align with the good name against the bad name. Label yourself with the most popular virtue against the most unpopular vice. You’re a patriot; your rivals are traitors. You’re mindful, your rivals are narcissists. You’re with God; your rivals are with the devil. That way, anyone who challenges your authority is attacking virtue itself.
- Act heroic no matter what. You must keep up the appearance of invincibility always. Never apologize. You are like a God, eternally right, righteous, and mighty. Even when you’re losing, you’re mighty—the martyr hero who is destined to rise again because you’re right and righteous.
- Cosplay and method act. Dress and act the part of the hero surrounded by evil stupid fools. No matter what your temperament or lifestyle, you can method-act the part. It’s easy. No matter who you are, there’s some Blockbuster movie hero you can pretend you are if you just stop looking at who you really are.
- Never look at yourself. Tyrants are mindless swellheads, braindead megaphones, robotic crusaders. They take up the most space but no one is home. They can’t see themselves and they refuse to accept that others see them. So speak like you are the absolute authority on your character.
- Or let others look at you. Pretend that the biggest sin is personal attacks. Never tolerate anyone calling you on your behavior. You are the authority on yourself and on everyone else too. You get to psychologize others; they don’t get to psychologize you. And why? Because you’re objective about everything including yourself. Your rivals are just biased.
- Remember, you are the supreme judge. You don’t just get to give the authoritative account of what’s true. You are the unbiased supreme judge presiding over all debates you enter. You get to decide what’s permissible evidence in your court. You get to decide what’s being debated and who wins every debate: you.
- Shame relentlessly. As the one who declares holy war, you are holy and therefore never have to face consequences. No matter how beastly you act, you remain the moral authority. This is the key to getting away with being a tyrant. So long as your rivals still have consciences, you’ll be able to shame them into backing off and giving you free rein.
- It’s all about who gets to lead. People still burdened by conscience will try to reason with you. They’ll enable you by treating you as though you mean what you say. A tyrant’s power comes from getting to steer the debate. You’ll look like a winner if you’ve got the steering wheel and can lead your rivals to any topic you want.
P.S.S.
“SlavA SOCRATES” is on the “CUTTING EDGE” of “JOURNALISM” (story telling), SLICING THROUGH the “GUARDIAN KNOTS” of CHAOS and CONFUSION … and LAYERS of ODIOUS ONION … EXPOSING the “ROTTEN CORE” of LIFE’s “ISSUES”, NEWS and “CURRENT EVENTS” … the FACT(s]) & REALITY of SIN … “DECEIVING DESIRES” … IGNORED by “FALLEN MANKIND” under the control of satan, the current ruler of this world … WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE and PEOPLE IMAGINE a VAIN THING? … ALL of US SINNERS in NEED of GOD’s GRACE … REDEMPTION … BIBLICAL REVELATION … GOD’s WORD is FOREVER SETTLED (“amen-ed”) IN HEAVEN … FAITH COMES BY HEARING, and HEARING BY The WORD of GOD …
HISTORY “X-treme” (Beneath and Beyond) … GOD is the “X”-FACTOR of ALL REAL HISTORY … “SlavA” is SKEPTICAL of the SKEPTICS … BOTH HORRIFYING and “HILARIOUS” … LIFE is “TRAGIC” COMEDY … BUT THANK GOD FOR HIS REDEMPTION PLAN … JESUS CHRIST OUR MESSIAH … OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS … SALVATION “BEYOND TRAGEDY” … DECEPTIVE YET TRUE … HIS “GOOD NEWS” to “SET the CAPTIVES FREE” …
TOLD NOT to CONFORM to THIS WORLD – “SlavA” is an “ALTERNATIVE” to TODAY’s WOKE EARTHLY TOTALITARIAN ZEITGEIST of SELF-RIGHTEOUS, HYPOCRITICAL “VIRTUE SIGNALing” … POLITICAL IDOL-atry (God substitutes) … TYRANNICAL, TOTALITARIAN THEATER … FAKE “VIRTUES” (correct) CAMOUFLAGING “VICES” (corrupt) … RESISTING DYSTOPIAN DE-CONSTRUCTION and DESTRUCTION, NIHILISM, and NARCISSISM … UTOPIA = NOWHERE … POST-MODERN HERESIES … PROGRESSIVE PATHOLOGIES … PSYCHOTIC & SUICIDAL SELF-LOVE & LOATHING (Zinn-sanity) … DO NOT “DRINK the KOOL-AID” … POST-MODERN POISON … RAGE and REBELLION AGAINST GOD’s “REALITY” … “DON’T BE FOOLED … AGAIN
The “PATRIOT CAUSE’ vs “PROGRESSIVE CRUSADE” (today’s civil war)
“HIS-TORY” is REVEALED in The BIBLE … The GOD of ISRAEL and KING JESUS … OUR COMPASS POINTS … HISTORY X-treme … SPIRITUAL WARFARE – WE WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH and BLOOD, BUT PRINCIPALITIES and POWERS, SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS in HIGH PLACES … The WORLD, FLESH and the devil (adversary) … DECEIVING DESIRES … “SIN” … SPIRITUAL WARFARE VS “the adversary” is REALITY … “The CHILDREN of the FLESH, DARKNESS & DISOBEDIENCE (satan & fear) WILL ALWAYS PERSECUTE the CHILDREN of the FREE (Faith, Covenant & Promise) … FASCIST SLAVERY WILL ALWAYS HATE and RESENT “The FREE” … CHRIST is OUR ADVOCATE …
“SLAVA” is a SUBVERSIVE (God Lover) in an AGE of SUBVERSION (God Haters) … GOD is the GREAT “I AM” … HUMnity HAS DE-VOLVED … FALLEN … NOT “BECOMING” WHAT WE VAIN-ly “IMAGINE” … The ALMIGHTY vs ABSURD – The CREATION is AT WAR, IN REBELLION AGAINST The CREATOR … LIFE is NOT “RANDOM ACCIDENT” … GOD “HIDES” in PLAIN SIGHT – PURPOSE, DESIGN and COMPLEXITY BEYOND OUR FULL COMPREHENSION … JEHOVAH STARES US in the FACE … TO THOSE WITH HEARS to HEAR and EYES to SEE …
“SLAVA” is a MILITANT “PILGRIM” … a “SEEKer” & GOD SUPREMACIST – JEHOVAH (The Lord of Hosts) is IN CONTROL … WE ARE ALL LOST SHEEP in NEED of The SHEPHERD (Christ) … OUR LIVING SCAPEGOAT of SACRIFICE … WHO BOUGHT the KEYS to DEATH, HELL and the GRAVE … CRUCIFIED at The CROSS … RESURRECTED … The COST to (our) DISCIPLE-ship (learners) as SAINTS (separated for HIS USE) … BEAR YOUR CROSS DAILY … DIE to SELF … TRULY REVOLUTIONARY WORDS from “The KING” … WHEN CHRIST COMES AGAIN, WILL HE FIND FAITH? … HEIRS to HIS KINGDOM … TIME vs ETERNITY … the TRUTH, the WAY … The LIGHT … KING JESUS …