How can I trust my own judgement when the outside world seems increasingly surreal?
That question is more apt than you know.
Making up fake facts is a technique of abuse called “gaslighting.”
The whole point of gaslighting is to control someone by undermining their sense of what’s real, which causes them to doubt their own judgment. That’s exactly how gaslighting works.
So when the Admnistration says that a massacre happened that never happened, or that Trump’s Inauguration was attended by more people than it was, or alt-right Web sites say that an FBI agent who does not exist was murdered in a town that does not exist because he was investigating Hillary Clinton, that’s gaslighting, and it’s done for the purpose of causing you to doubt the evidence of your own eyes and ears.
That’s what “alternative facts” are. Gaslighting.
In the novel 1984, George Orwell wrote:
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
Read other answers by Franklin Veaux on Quora:
- Why is fake news so popular with Republicans?
- Is worldnewsdailyreport.com fake news?
- Why have we created this new term, “fake news”? Why not call “fake news” as what it is, propaganda?
from Quora http://ift.tt/2kfr1xB
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