“And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.” – Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt, noted philosopher and political theorist,…
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America, you’ve been gaslighted.
The 1944 film Gaslight is based on Patrick Hamilton’s play, about a woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is going batty. In the movie, Ingrid Bergman’s character Paula is constantly manipulated by her husband Gregory, played by Charles Boyer, and slowly she feels like she’s going insane. Gregory gradually isolates his wife from the outside world, claiming that it’s for her own…