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Gaslighting – No, you’re not imagining it
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The Power and Perception of Gaslighting
This chapter explores the meaning and implications of the term 'gaslighting,' examining its etymology and the feelings of confusion and manipulation it evokes. The discussion also encourages listeners to support the podcast through Patreon for added benefits.
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Speaker 2
There's also this sort of thing, words like this are self-proving. By virtue of being used a lot, it suggests that it's really quite evocative, that it conjures up a visual image for people that works very quickly. I had no idea of what the original story was. It's one of those odd words that, as soon as you hear it, it creates a series of pictures and almost a story in your mind. You can grasp intuitively what it's getting at quite quickly. As soon as a word is performing in that way, you think there is a reason that it's performing. It works for people. It helps them grasp something.
Speaker 1
Mason- Yeah, and almost through a kind of etymological coincidence, it's very powerful. it's got the word gas, which implies kind of like something that's addling someone's mind. And that actually doesn't mean so. What it refers to is like the gas light. It could be like almost electric light stimming or the wifi going down, whatever. Because of all gas light, and in fact, I had noticed that there were times when somebody would accuse Israel of gaslighting people over their account of, you know, a contested incident in Gaza. And some people go as anti-Semitic because they would hear the word gas. Oh, wow. And associated with the Holocaust. So it's one of those things that for good or real, I think that one of the reasons that word is caught on is because it seems like it means there's more power to it than simply a form of Victorian illumination.
Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah. Strange. Thank you for listening. If you're not a patron, we would strongly suggest that you do become one. Patreons get episodes early. What else do they get? They
Speaker 1
get episodes early. They get extra episodes that the Normies don't get.
Speaker 2
They do.
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