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🧵Thanks, we need more widespread education on propaganda.
Just as importantly, we need to explore *why* we are vulnerable to it, and the psychological mechanism at play.
Normal, empathic people are vulnerable because they project their own goodness onto others
and naively presume no-one would ever try to manipulate/harm them.
Normal, empathic people are disadvantaged
because they simply cannot get their heads around
the cold machinations of psychopathic, sociopathic peoples and systems… and the way they use the
victim card to (a) play on emotions and (b) camouflage
perpetrator goals.
This needs to change. We need to catch up, do research on dark triad abusive behaviours and learn to identify the primary tool: gaslighting.
Gaslighting is far worse than lying: it inverts and denies others’ reality and induces (measurable) confusion and helplessness.
The gaslighters gain power and control (via framing and narrative creation) over the hapless, who are ignorant of the psychological mechanism at play.
We need to understand this control dynamic far better.
Become resistant to gaslighting by studying its mechanisms better. Read; watch youtube lectures.
Once more of us can identify what’s at play -
the gaslighting tactic of Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender (DARVO)
- the more the red flags can be called out.
Education is key.
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