Gaslighting Getting control by menacing meansManipulationBy sowing self doubt in your victims’ mindsInventing weaknessesRevealing false trendsTelling a storyThat is harmfully untrueSuch a neat trick, isn’t it?You winAt the cost of your targets’ self respectMere suggestionsCunningly devisedTo create uncertaintyAre brain missilesFostered by your calculating idSo rant on in your way CaesarOr are you Hitler?Or a presentContinue reading “Some Serious Thoughts”
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By Jingo!
Image: Creative Commons – Kiss/Clipart A former Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, had this to say in a recent speech: Our country has to be capable of inflicting severe damage on any adversary – and that almost certainly means increasing military spending beyond two per cent of GDP. Source: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/address-china-tony-abbott 11/12/19 By Jingo! a striking idea. DoContinue reading “By Jingo!”
Tea Break From The Cricket
Poems Through A Glass Starkly A Word On The Yellow Press That picture above of the Yellow Kid is linked to the reason we have the current term “Yellow Press.” The cartoon character was the creation of Richard Fenton Outcault who was working in the 1890s in the United States for the extremely racistContinue reading “Tea Break From The Cricket”
Royce Levi Australian Teacher and Author 