s my reason why I think something's true and it doesn't ring true to you, you say no no you got it wrong, here's my reasons why it's wrong. So there's no cognitive dissonance in that. You just hear some information, you have a different opinion, you disagree.

But if I nail it or somebody else does and they say something that just looks true but you don't want it to be, what do you do? What does your brain do when you're presented with a truth that you really, really don't want to be true because it would ruin your entire worldview? You come up with a strange explanation for how this incongruity could exist. And the one you see the most is, well they must be gaslighting me.

So anybody who says that gaslighting is happening almost certainly is experiencing cognitive dissonance about something. And they're presenting it because they have this weird opinion that doesn't make any sense, doesn't match any facts. Isn't gaslighting just a negative term for persuasion? No it's more than that because gaslighting comes from a Hitchcock movie and the idea of it was that you would make somebody think they were actually crazy, make them actually doubt their ability to understand the world. It's not just persuading them of something new.

Persuasion is down here and gaslighting would be like this. Persuasion first of all could be completely ethical. Ordinary persuasion is ethical if you're an ethical person. Gaslighting is by definition an unethical horrible thing and nobody's doing it.

Alright that's all for now. Gonna talk to you later. Bye for now.