Extraction Technologies
Systemic Gaslighting as Energy Harvest
Dimensional Classification: Psychological manipulation → Metabolic extraction technology
The systematic making of oppressed groups doubt their own reality, requiring constant energy expenditure to prove the unprovable. Each act of documentation, each appeal to evidence, each attempt to establish basic facts becomes an energy extraction event. The system feeds on the labor of proof itself.
Recognition Pattern: Constant demand to prove obvious realities. Energy depletion through endless justification cycles.
Geometric Signature: Möbius strip - proof leads to demand for more proof in infinite recursive loop.
This leads to psychological and physiological symptoms including disturbed sleep, high blood pressure, muscle tension. The cumulative stress load of daily microaggressions, discrimination, and survival demands creates what activists describe as exhaustion. This isn't metaphor. Researchers measure shortened telomeres, suppressed immune function, accelerated aging. The system literally feeds on life force.