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On a homonymous note, viewing society as a (psychologically) gaslit world can be a really useful lens for having new ideas, and for freeing yourself from some of its ruts.

Reminds me of Jreg's recent video "Post-Truth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3irKjpQruI

Counterpoint: considering everyone to be stupid/uninformed is often an equally perilous pitfall, despite how tempting it seems.

Was expecting this to be about gaslighting

me too

I was expecting it to be about biogas lighting: https://permies.com/t/3314/biogas-light-heat

Ditto. Was expecting something along the lines of HyperNormalisation [1] by Adam Curtis.

[1] https://youtu.be/fh2cDKyFdyU

Same. We definitely live in a gaslit world in that regard. Maybe an article worth writing.

That website wants me to sign up in order to view its "About" page.

A Gas-Lit World