This, the scientific experiment with the puzzles shown in this video, this is how prolonged narcissistic abuse works, how stalking or domestic violence often affects victims, and it’s also how the English class system works.
https://youtu.be/u4SIlJE0Qs0?si=OdxG5St0yPNHgPa5
To be precise, the rigged, impossible-to-solve puzzles result in a form of gaslighting. They deny people their own view of reality (such as “I am reasonably smart so I can easily solve such a puzzle”) and thus start distorting it.
They also distort reality for anyone observing what goes on and who does not know that three of the puzzles are rigged. They trick them into believing that these three candidates are so “stupid” that they can’t even solve a simple puzzle that was designed for 10-year-olds.
(31 August 2023, 23:44: Yet now the new URL for the video makes a bird video show up in this post when I look at it on my phone instead of on my tablet? Come to think of it, I also had technical troubles while posting the original post.)
(Below is what it looks like while I am editing the post on my tablet, tethered to my phone.)
This is how some psychopaths and narcissists operate. Because (other) people tend to associate certain behaviors with properties like kindness, they tend to assume that these latter properties are present when they are in fact absent as soon as they see the behaviors. They let themselves be fooled because they prefer pleasant emotions or ideas over threatening ones.
In this example, imagine wat might happen if the man conducting the experiment does not reveal that half of the puzzles are rigged. Imagine what might happen if someone goes through his entire life like this. People will fall for the superficial charm and perceived authority of the person who is conducting the test and they’ll dismiss the three “victims” as losers.
(Afterthought: I think that psychopathic and autistic people are equally bewildered by how the rest of us function and can feel equally lonely and misunderstood, rejected even. They both find emotions challenging but in opposite ways. So they study others to figure out how to make the best of life and fit in as well as they can. I think that autistic people often have a problem associating certain words, conclusions and behaviors with specific contexts; they make different associations or none at all. Context is challenging for them.)
(This reminds me of a woman who once told me that when she was a child, she thought that only she was having thoughts. Then one day, she was observing a boy and realized that he was thinking too, to her surprise. And that surprised me.)
This is what my phone shows the next day:
