Mind control may be characterised as good or bad or neutral, depending on perspective ... depending also on our definitions of Mind, control, and the two words together in a phrase ... if this sounds like semantics, it is, and recognising the power of words casts light on reality ... since the worlds we create reflect the stories we tell and the languages we employ in which to tell them ...
Examining the topic more closely, with reference to the word gaslighting, we see this word itself is composed of two words, and since gas as a source of light and heat is not ubiquitous, the word as such is unknown in many places ... the technique, however, is and was employed as a source of power of humans over other humans at every scale ... and for a positive perspective we may say the dim light of the false reality of Fear may be brightened not only to move whole populations from the Fear created in one huge panic engendered by design by well-meaning governments working in concert through international organisations, to shock complacent subjects into changing the behaviours they deemed unhelpful for the Planet, labouring under the existential threats of Climate Chaos, over-population, gross inequality, extreme poverty alongside obscene wealth ... in a contemporary context of Artificial Intelligence offering huge benefits for humanity ... alongside huge dangers for the human species co-opted not to serve each other but the ever smarter Machines ...
The question of which group of humans may most benefit from this Great Reset, from a post-capitalist decaying system to a New World Order, a new normal, with Common Purpose, building back better, with far smaller populations, is worth examining, since history as recorded in this era of patriarchical power, points to the Powers that Be tending to hang on to what they have, supported by their hangers on in Authorities at every level ... the masses of the great unwashed, as usual, soap and water and other useful hygienic items notwithstanding, as usual left doing the necessary work to keep the show on the road for the benefit of the others ... and since automation removes the burden of lots of jobs, fewer workers are therefore required ...
So, at family scale, tyrants turn the gaslight down imperceptibly, to maintain control and create a dim reality for the chosen victims ... spouses, children and so on ... cults play the same game and on up the levels whole cultures are hypnotised by ancient techniques in modern forms ... smartphones perhaps, always pinging, televisions always offering false narratives, you get the picture? Only vaguely aware the machines you are watching are also watching you! Paranoia? Maybe, but as is known, just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean there may not be good reasons to Stay Aware ... to coin a phrase, possibly one of the very few things the current, soon to be replaced, Dear Leader (UK Branch) was given by his expert Behavioural Insights Team to utter, as a prelude to the non-sequiturs that didn't follow ... hmm
All this speculation is best parked under science fiction for now, or a hypothesis in need of evidence perhaps, so please relax, try to enjoy the story if you can ... the next phase may seem a little brighter, some freedoms kindly re-instated ... try to be grateful for small mercies and if you want to skip some stages, at any level of Man's inhumanity to Man (and to be pedantic for a particular reason, Woman), Liberation is at hand, beyond the Fear ... but that's philosophy ...
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