{"id":64280,"date":"2022-11-29T19:15:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T00:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64280"},"modified":"2022-11-29T19:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T00:15:17","slug":"gaslighting-is-the-word-of-the-year-for-good-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64280","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gaslighting\u2019 Is the Word of the Year for Good Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"featured_image\">\n<div class=\"featured_img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/11\/29\/Charles-Boyer-and-Ingrid-Bergman_Gaslight-1200x959.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/11\/29\/Charles-Boyer-and-Ingrid-Bergman_Gaslight-700x420.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in \u201cGaslight\u201d (1944). (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.)\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"featured_caption\">Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in \u201cGaslight\u201d (1944). (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"pricat_name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/gaslighting-is-the-word-of-the-year-for-good-reason_4892369.html?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u2018Gaslighting\u2019 Is the Word of the Year for Good Reason<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>Every year, Merriam-Webster picks a word to capture the culture of a moment in time. The choice is based on the frequency and quantity of searches as well as the departure from the norm. This year, the choice seems perfect: gaslighting. It\u2019s drawn from the 1944 film noir starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman.<\/p>\n<p>The term means to be subjected to extended psychological trickery to cause the victim to question his or her own reality. In the film, Boyer plays a handsome stranger who meets the beautiful heiress Bergman on a foreign journey and they fall in love. He convinces her to marry and move back together to London to her family home, whereby he embarks upon a subtle campaign to convince her she is bonkers while he secretly searches the home for legacy jewels he intends to steal.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s painful to watch, but the experience connects with our own as we watch mainstream media, see respectable scientists canceled for supposedly spreading\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-disinformation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disinformation<\/a>, or when we watch a White House press conference. They try to convince us that they are normal and we are the crazy ones, probably guilty of wrongthink or not aware of the full facts. The more they insist on their version of truth, the more we are invited to see ourselves as nuts for failing to give them all the benefit of our doubts.<\/p>\n<p>The film has this crucial moment when Bergman flips from believing that she is a broken spirit and confused person suddenly to realizing that she is the victim of an elaborate hoax. Once she realizes this, and all the pieces fall into place, she calls him out as a fraud and a thief&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in \u201cGaslight\u201d (1944). (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.) \u2018Gaslighting\u2019 Is the Word of the Year for Good Reason Every year, Merriam-Webster picks a word to capture the culture of a moment in time. The choice is based on the frequency and quantity of searches as well as the departure from the norm. 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