Nathan Radke

That's the weird thing about monster stories is that they're almost reassuring in a way because if it's a monster, it's a thing that can be confronted.

It's a thing that can be battled.

Whereas so many of the things that we're afraid of right now...

there doesn't seem to be any ways for us to even understand them, let alone fight back against them.

I mean, you came really close.

You almost had it right on the runway, and then at the last second, there was a bit of a jolt, but I think we made it.

No, absolutely.

So, of course, there's a really complicated relationship between truth and knowledge and power.

And talking about conspiracies, the entire focal point of a conspiracy is that the knowledge of the truth is hidden from us by people in power.

And in hiding that truth, they're able to get more power.

And one of the clearest examples of that relationship is when people in positions of power gaslight the population.

Now, what gaslighting is, it's unfortunately, it's a very useful concept.

It's not just lying.

It's not just concealing the truth.

It's way more insidious.

It's way more dangerous than that.

Gaslighting is a kind of power play in which somebody tries to get you to believe them instead of your own experience and reason.

And so to do this, what they do is they deliberately present you with a distorted reality while trying to make you think that the real distortions are coming from your own brain.

Yeah, no, exactly.

And when you talk about abusive relationships, this is a terrible form of abuse.