Perception is always subjective. There are no external, established, approved (by whom?) catalogues of “prime facts”. We are trained to recognize certain aspects of Life as “objective” and it works… until it doesn’t because a new interpretation is put into motion, aka reframing.
The best new proof of it is the miraculous multiplication of two prime sexes into an unlimited number of relative and conventional identifications. Despite the fact that everyone can fact-check their own sex in an instant. Or support the conclusion by fact-checking family members, friends and neighbours. It will be a bit on the taboo game, but the results are definite, objective and unchallengeable.
Doubting one’s own mind is easy and common. Because we are not taught its rules of functioning and various ways of subverting each and every one of them (aka marketing, public relations, propaganda, business).
The whole thing has always been of marginal importance, dealt on a case-by-case basis in personal relationships.
Problems started when certain groups were “approved” to pronounce final verdicts on mental capacity of others: psychologists, media, public relations. Now the subjective has become ultra subjective. It’s a dead end. There is no way to dismantle this new mind game. Enough persistence plus money plus contacts plus common vested interests and anything, however absurd, stupid or outlandish, may become a new mental standard.
I’m a family physician and I completely agree. It is so difficult to witness how unprepared our society, and especially our children, are for the mind wars being waged against them.
You’ll enjoy Gaslight. I watched it as a kid as a rerun on TV. Ingrid Bergman does a memorable performance and I think you will recognize a lot of the psychology that is being waged against all of us right now.
Perception is always subjective. There are no external, established, approved (by whom?) catalogues of “prime facts”. We are trained to recognize certain aspects of Life as “objective” and it works… until it doesn’t because a new interpretation is put into motion, aka reframing.
The best new proof of it is the miraculous multiplication of two prime sexes into an unlimited number of relative and conventional identifications. Despite the fact that everyone can fact-check their own sex in an instant. Or support the conclusion by fact-checking family members, friends and neighbours. It will be a bit on the taboo game, but the results are definite, objective and unchallengeable.
Doubting one’s own mind is easy and common. Because we are not taught its rules of functioning and various ways of subverting each and every one of them (aka marketing, public relations, propaganda, business).
The whole thing has always been of marginal importance, dealt on a case-by-case basis in personal relationships.
Problems started when certain groups were “approved” to pronounce final verdicts on mental capacity of others: psychologists, media, public relations. Now the subjective has become ultra subjective. It’s a dead end. There is no way to dismantle this new mind game. Enough persistence plus money plus contacts plus common vested interests and anything, however absurd, stupid or outlandish, may become a new mental standard.
I’m a family physician and I completely agree. It is so difficult to witness how unprepared our society, and especially our children, are for the mind wars being waged against them.
You’ll enjoy Gaslight. I watched it as a kid as a rerun on TV. Ingrid Bergman does a memorable performance and I think you will recognize a lot of the psychology that is being waged against all of us right now.
Cat People (1942) is another classic, which seems to do with gaslighting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_People_(1942_film)