The Rise of Reverse Gaslighting
16th April 2024
The Spectator.
We live now in an age of reverse gaslighting.
Ordinary gaslighting — the term was popularized by the 1944 movie Gaslight — describes a process of psychological manipulation whose goal is to make ordinary people question their sanity.
Reverse gaslighting, by contrast, aims to convince us that insane realities are perfectly normal.
Perhaps we can call it ‘lightgassing’.