Gaslighting: which I am told came from a well-known film called Gaslight, is when someone psychologically manipulates your perception of reality to such a degree that internal fragmentation occurs, you start to question your own sanity and as a result, loose your free will. The results are that you end up accepting the “new” reality created for you as a way to survive and so “gaslight” yourself into believing that you still have free will and free choice.
This requires some thinking about.
In order to fully examine some examples of this, let’s start with a quiz. What do these things have in common?
- Greg Wallace coming out as autistic and suing the BBC for lack of care.
- A supporter of trans rights declaring that people who do not accept that individuals can change sex at will are mentally ill.
- Bernard Montgomery (famous in World War Two), was probably autistic according to an interview with his biographer.
- A social media commentator declaring that people who do not support Palestine are psychopaths.
- Nigel Farage’s challenges to the online safety bill mean that he is an enabler of paedophiles like Jimmy Saville
These five examples of material that is freely in the public domain are linked in two ways. Firstly, their opinions have not in any way been challenged by the main stream media, except to report that Farage is demanding an apology in the fifth case. Secondly, by not challenging the protagonist’s perception, they give out the message that such views are correct and acceptable and anyone disagreeing is somehow strange, if not actually cruel or unacceptable. Climate change, covid and net zero are all nationwide gaslighting exercises, but I want to concentrate on my examples for this article.
First let’s look at how you do it. I read a very good article on this subject by Cynthia Chung, who talked about the main protagonists of this method of control which include the Tavistock and a psychiatrist called William Sargant.
This group believed that the only way to attain the ideal society and to correct unhealthy emotional states would be to break down and fragment everything that had gone before, and then rebuild from the ground up. Nothing or no one could be spared, or the experiment would fail.
When patterns formed in the “out there “are artificially aligned for you and don’t feel comfortable, your internally created world has two choices, accept or fight. But if you can be gaslighted into believing that you have been forming the wrong patterns your ability to create your own world fragments, and you look outside yourself for a construction of the “out there”. Cynthia Chung opined that this is why so many people are waiting for a hero to lead them to where they want to be and have become unnaturally passive in conducting their own lives.
William Sargant believed in the breakdown to build back better philosophy and used it with his seriously ill patients; in what I would say was quite a cruel way; but those wedded to this system would say that you have to be cruel to be kind and that they would be thanked in the end. You could say that William Sargant was the father of modern gaslighting techniques and is certainly revered in the circles that believe they are saving humanity by using these methods on society as a whole, adherents to the Frankfurt school included.
He used the principles discovered by Pavlov on conditioning in relation to subjective levels of excitability to identify the approach needed for each subject or group. So, what about my examples? I shall be rating them for gaslighted qualities on a scale of one to ten, but feel free to apply your own score if you disagree with mine.
Let’s look at Greg Wallace.
Well, what a cheeky chappie he is, or rather was. Greg is of the school which includes such things as “confessions of” films and the Carry On lot. He is building site man and in his younger years was probably considered a bit of a lad. Most girls he grew up with would have either given him a swift knee, or a hearty put down and he would be on his way, looking for someone else to prance in front of. Apart from being annoying, he would not have stalked, raped or battered anyone; preferring a quick bum pinch and a shocking remark to make the lads laugh, and then running away.
Yet thanks to the media outrage, he has gone from defending his “true self” as it is called nowadays, to declaring that he is a victim of a failure to care, citing that autism meant that he didn’t know that what he was doing offended people. I am not convinced by that at all, but he now feels so fragmented that he is grasping at any straw to stop him spinning out of control after the BBC sacked him.
Greg can’t understand why people outside his natural habitat find him distasteful; because for most of his life he had behaved like this and it had been ok. Yet one day he got up and everything had changed without anyone telling him. In other words, his authentic self had become persona non grata, almost overnight. He suddenly realised that most of the people he knew in his celebrity world disliked him intensely and that he had been the last to know. No wonder he wants to take refuge in autism. I would give this one 9 on the fragmentation scale.
Next up is the supporter of trans rights who thinks “normies” are mentally ill. This is an immature attempt to convince people that mental illness is reserved for those who do not accept their world view and celebrate it. As a technique, it is pretty poor because in spite of several years of full on propaganda, most people have decided that suspending reality to that extent is a step too far. It’s also why the state wants to force feed this nonsense into ever younger children, in the hope that they will integrate it into their developing pattern formations. Remember, nothing is sacred when breaking down reality so that we can build back better. Fragmentation score 4, but if we don’t do something about schools, I expect this to rise up the charts in future.
Next up, Montgomery being described as possibly autistic by his biographer. This belongs to a long line of content reinterpreting the past as undesirable and to be got rid of as soon as possible. Taking certain stand out personality traits, along with selected events that the person was involved in and reworking them to describe a person from history as either mad or bad is a classic gaslighting technique. We can’t know what most of these people were really like, or what their motivations were, but the reinterpretation is presented as a done deal, with ‘the science’ being settled so to speak. Fragmentation score 6 and rising, due to lack of dissent or even questioning from academia.
Now we move onto people who do not support Palestine are psychopathic. This is more complex than it seems on the surface. It seems to be saying that if you don’t feel for and get upset and angry with Israel about Palestine, then you have the same emotional deficits as a psychopath has.
Dig a bit deeper and the inference is that the way to prove you haven’t is to hate Jews. Hamas come out well as the horrible things that they do are discounted through willful blindness. Other outrages in the world are ignored for the same reason, because only this war matters. The inference is that psychopathy, as described in this comment, is ok if exercised on the right groups. However, if exercised on the wrong groups, expect your life to be physically as well as emotionally fragmented under the banner of combatting evil and mis information. I want to give this one 10 for its complexity, but definitely a strong 9.
Last but not least is Nige and the online harms bill. This one is a cracker and straight out of gaslighting 101. Accuse your victim of being a supporter of something that most people would throw up their hands in horror over and although they don’t believe it in a million years; they will keep silent to avoid the possibility of being tarred with the same brush. A definite 10.
However, all is not eternal gloom. Sargant found that no matter how much people fragmented as a result of gaslighting, for all but a minority free will continuously tried to assert itself and he could no more erase one personality and replace it with another than people can really change biological sex. The short-term effects of gaslighting cannot be relied on to last unsupported for the rest of a person’s life and have to be continually reinforced.
The goal of the parasite class is to do this and to force people to accept that the world is as they say it is, so that you will try to solve problems and live your life within the confines set for you. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t walk out of those confines any time you want too; hence the continuous reinforcement because that is what they fear the most.