Fragmentation of the Soul: Death by a Thousand Cuts

Some thieves are fast. But, some theft takes the Gaslighter who has at hand the task of finding then stealing all the goods. This may take "death by a thousand cuts" on the Gaslight's victim:

• fragment you
• split you apart from your resources, senses
• confuse with a thousand little comments: you're crazy

BREAKING DOWN 'Death By A Thousand Cuts'
This figure of speech refers to the idea that while a single small cut may not be not fatal, the cumulative effect of many of them could cause a person to bleed to death. The term is derived from an ancient form of torture in which the condemned person was subjected to a number of minor wounds until the accumulation of damage became fatal.

Death By A Thousand Cuts
DEFINITION of 'Death By A Thousand Cuts'
Death by a thousand cuts is a figure of speech that refers to a failure that occurs as a result of many small problems. Death by a thousand cuts could refer to the termination of a proposed deal as a result of several small issues rather than one major one. This term could also apply to a product or idea that is destroyed by too many minor changes.

Death By A Thousand Cuts https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/death-1000-cuts.asp#ixzz5V32eqepc

breach
cleavage
cleft
crack
discontinuity
disjunction
displacement
fissure
fragmentation
gap
mutilation
opening
rent
rift
schism
severance
splinter
split
wound
shave
chip
flake
erode
break
break down
carve
cross
cut
isolate
partition
segregate
split
subdivide
tear
bisect
branch
chop
cleave
demarcate
detach
dichotomize
disengage
disentangle
disjoin
dislocate
dismember
dissect
dissever
dissociate
dissolve
disunite
divorce
halve
intersect
loose
part
quarter
rend
rupture
section
segment
sever
shear
sunder
unbind
undo
abscind
cut up
pull away



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Points of Light: Cultures and History

Cultures and history can be forgotten, or they can be part of our mental Points of Light.

Here are two examples:

1.  We bring back our own culture and the cultures of others:

Edward Curtis: Was this the most ambitious photo project ever?
Edward S Curtis spent years living with Native American tribes to chronicle their lives, in what became a definitive work of vast proportions.

After taking more than 40,000 pictures over 30 years, he published the last of 20 volumes in 1930.

https://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/45843072/edward-curtis-was-this-the-most-ambitious-photo-project-ever

2. African Women: remembering them in history, 10 short BBC video vignettes:

Warrior Queens:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-45877404/nehanda-the-shona-spirit-medium-that-inspired-mugabe

Ambushed then Hijacked: 75 words to expand thinking

G: thanks for your dialogue and links to Mental Hijacking: society, social media, advertising and more.
(https://neurohacker.com/how-social-media-and-ai-hijack-your-brain)

There's lots to this. I also thought of the mythic role of the Mermaids in the Homer stories: mesmerizing and enchanting, as well as those mythic types that directly suck the soul from you as in Harry Potter movies:


Stolen are mind, body, heart, or soul......however you see a human "self".



Sucked out and Stolen Life, Harry Potter

The thing you could say about these Hijackers is that there are many: many types, and many methods. In fact, it's all very prevalent.

Your article mentions:
social media
advertising

How about also the metaphors in movies, like Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

Apart from the great need to know and stop mind snatching, there is the process of regaining our mental self.




Here are 5 Word lists to expand your thinking on the topic of Hijack

Ambushed then Hijacked: 75 words to expand thinking

carjack
commandeer
kidnap
steal
shanghai
skyjack
take hostage
annex
borrow
clap
confiscate
cop
embezzle
filch
get fingers on
get hands on
glom on to
grab
grab hold of
lift
misappropriate
moonlight requisition
pilfer
pocket
secure
swipe
take over
usurp
requisition
sequester
sequestrate



ambush
appropriate
arrest
block
catch
check
curb
cut in
cut off
deflect
head off at pass
hinder
interlope
interpose
make off with
obstruct
prevent
seize
shortstop
stop
take
take away

body snatch
bundle off
capture
carry away
carry off
coax
decoy
entice
grab
lay hands on
lure
make off with
pirate
remove
run away with
seduce
seize
shanghai
skyjack
snatch
spirit away
steal
waylay

abscond
appropriate
bereave
break into
burglarize
burgle
cheat
con
cop
defalcate
defraud
despoil
disinherit
dispossess
divest
do out of
embezzle
filch
heist
hold up
hustle
lift
loot
lose
mug
oust
peculate
pilfer
pillage
pinch
plunder
promote
purloin
raid
ransack
relieve
requisition
rifle
rip off
roll
sack
scrounge
snitch
stick up
strip
strong-arm
swindle
swipe
take
thieve
withhold




ambush
annex
apprehend
appropriate
arrest
arrogate
bag
bust
capture
carry off
catch
claw
clutch
commandeer
confiscate
conquer
exact
force
gain
get
grab
grasp
hijack
hook
impound
incorporate
kidnap
lift
nab
nail
occupy
overcome
overpower
overrun
overwhelm
pick up
pounce
secure
snag
snare
spirit away
subdue
take
take by storm
take captive
take over
take possession of
throttle
trap
usurp
wrench

Points of Light: Preserving Cultures Counts

In some movies from the 30's and 40's a lovely vacation is portrayed. While the scene may be from a former time, movies from this era emulated certain vacation types and spots, just like other things of the wealthy were emulated in movies, albeit a Sherlock Holmes movie, vampire, love, or mystery:
the dinner jacket
the martini
nice leather travel luggage
Harrods
big gems on necklaces and rings
flowing designer dresses for designer parties

This was the era forgetting the glamour of the 1912 cruise ship disaster of the Titanic, devastating World War 1, and growing financial and political tensions.  I think this was also a time when somewhat realistic movies, like Gaslight were brought to us by the British. I think there is a reason for many mysteries and dark dramas being influenced by England: it was the land of Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard, tales of Sherlock Holmes, and the dark sides of London.

In the movie Gaslight, our heroine has met a man while on her glamour vacation. Was it like so many movies at that time, portraying a long rest at Lake Como, in Italy?

Remember, as the note above, there are two versions of the movie, with different details. But, there is the
vacation
the return home
the gaslighting

Then, this is not fully a happy ending. There is no return to Lake Como. The gaslighter's damage has redirected the story. It doesn't return to a naive Lake story or rest. But, also, it doesn't return to that theme at all.....there is no Prince taking our heroine off to the Lake.

The story has then changed. It's not innocent, and not naive anymore. There is damage. Just like the knights going off naively to find the Holy Grail, they all end up battered, scared, and war torn from the experience. Nothing is the same.

Something is lost then.

These stories serve as warnings and tragedies. There is loss. They tell us

don't go there
don't do that
don't have dinner in the vampires castle

When the thief, the gaslighter, takes one's innocence, it's replaced with a more mature view of the world. Being jaded can show up. But, the risk is to let the pendulum swing so far that one is only jaded. One must find now a balance:

how can you be careful, jaded, and "return to or regain your innocence"?

Lost is the culture of Lake Como and the restive vacation, but also potentially lost for good is the culture of the lake vacation AND a part of our souls, often called our inner innocent child self.

About Lake Como

https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/europe/5-reasons-italys-lake-como-12436663

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Hitlers are all around us, at all times, in every place worldwide! Here's why

Hitlers rising? Actually, they're all around us at all times. Just as serial killers are .5% of the population wordwide at all times, so too are Political Psychopaths. Do you know what that % is?

They rise, at any time, any place, and when you don't suspect it....and they con their people in all ways Hitler. Do you know those methods?


books on methods of deceit, and characteristics of  dangerous psychopaths next door:

https://narcissistdonaldtrump.blogspot.com/

Jair Bolsonaro likes to court controversy. The 63-year-old has made provocative statements on issues ranging from abortion, race, migration and homosexuality to gun laws.

He has portrayed himself as the defender of a Brazil of decades past, suggesting that the country should return to the hardline law-and-order tactics of the 1964-1985 military dictatorship.

'Wannabe Hitler'

Some media have started calling him the "Trump of the Tropics" comparing his populist style and social media presence to that of the US leader.

His presidential rival Ciro Gomes even went as far as dubbing Mr Bolsonaro a "little tropical wannabe Hitler".

rest of story:

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