The idea of Social or even societal gaslighting is an interesting phenomenon that has been the subject of some significant scientific study and even the expose. Take for example, the Ponzi scheme, a financial form of gaslighting. When finally exposed there would be financial shock and loss. The long running musical on Broadway entitled “the music man,“ told the story of a con artist who took a whole town for a ride. In darker terms, there is the holocaust where an entire nation convinced the world that extermination was a solution. Recall for example, the response of the United States to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan in 1941, an action which combined international gaslighting in military conquest.
In the postmodern - even post Information Age social and societal gaslighting opportunities abound-Kevin the easy access to mass communications. DEI could be cited as an example of the ladder, where it mixes in industrial age, cultural Marxism and shame based instigations with democratic ideological frames that transpose ideas like equality with Equity. Like any gaslighting scheme, the underlying purpose is secretive, the attempt to gain personal, financial or political power.
The response of the victim of gaslighting can be shockingly swift. Recall president Roosevelt speech before Congress declaring Pearl Harbor as a day of infamy as he asked America to declare war. So too, is today’s response to the gaslighting of America by proponents of DEI.
The idea of Social or even societal gaslighting is an interesting phenomenon that has been the subject of some significant scientific study and even the expose. Take for example, the Ponzi scheme, a financial form of gaslighting. When finally exposed there would be financial shock and loss. The long running musical on Broadway entitled “the music man,“ told the story of a con artist who took a whole town for a ride. In darker terms, there is the holocaust where an entire nation convinced the world that extermination was a solution. Recall for example, the response of the United States to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan in 1941, an action which combined international gaslighting in military conquest.
In the postmodern - even post Information Age social and societal gaslighting opportunities abound-Kevin the easy access to mass communications. DEI could be cited as an example of the ladder, where it mixes in industrial age, cultural Marxism and shame based instigations with democratic ideological frames that transpose ideas like equality with Equity. Like any gaslighting scheme, the underlying purpose is secretive, the attempt to gain personal, financial or political power.
The response of the victim of gaslighting can be shockingly swift. Recall president Roosevelt speech before Congress declaring Pearl Harbor as a day of infamy as he asked America to declare war. So too, is today’s response to the gaslighting of America by proponents of DEI.
That one gets when they suddenly realize they have been gaslighted.
There is that burst of collective emergency energy