(Intro) This is How to Gaslight the World, pattern-rec on a beat,
where the same folks spark the crisis, then sell tickets to retreat.
We use long, savage titles so the function shows its face,
then drop real names and dates so you can track it in its place.

(Verse 1) “The Boardroom Where Drowning Nations Sign Their Own Death Warrants While Bankers Brand It Rescue,”
that’s the IMF in Jakarta ’97, “structural adjustment” as the virtue.
Thailand’s baht crashed first, jobs vanished in a night,
the Fund said, “cut your spending, float your currency, you’ll be all right.”
Rates went up, firms went broke, whole streets lost their pay,
but every round of deeper cuts was sold as “no other way.”

(Chorus 1) See how the cure looks just like what caused the disease?
That’s not random, that’s design—same prescription, higher fees.

(Verse 2) Cut to “The Mansion Where Billionaires Discover Inequality Right After They Caused It,”
Davos 2014, Oxfam drops the stat and they applaud it:
the richest eighty-five hold as much as half the world’s poor,
but the panel’s moderated by the hedge fund on the floor.
Next year they’re back with slogans, “inclusive growth,” “reset,”
while CEO pay and profits hit their highest numbers yet.

(Chorus 2) You can’t sell the problem as a product if you ever really solve it,
so they rebrand it “impact investing” while the wealth gap just revolves it.

(Verse 3) Now “The Theater Where Countries Perform Concern About a Planet They’re Actively Destroying,”
COP26 in Glasgow, coal “phase-down” got applause while India kept deploying.
In the same news cycle, the UK waved a brand-new North Sea field,
called it “just transition,” like the carbon wouldn’t yield.
Paris said “keep 1.5 alive,” but left cuts self-declared,
so the graphs keep climbing upward while they say “we really cared.”

(Chorus 3) The summit makes the headline; the license hides below the fold,
that’s the gap between the promise and what actually gets sold.

(Verse 4) Check “The Reunion Where Public Health Experts Say ‘We Warned You’ to Governments Who Still Won’t Pay Them,”
World Health Assembly ’21, pandemic treaty talks, they weigh them, then they slay them.
After SARS they wrote the playbook: stockpile masks, fund labs, prepare,
rich states signed, then cut the line, left whole systems stripped and bare.
When COVID hit, poor countries begged for vaccine recipes to share,
pharma said “intellectual property” and locked the formula in there.

(Chorus 4) They’ll clap for “frontline heroes” while they keep the patents tight,
call it “innovation system,” let the death counts prove them right.

(Verse 5) Last stage: “The Conference Where No One Understands the Tech But Everyone’s Scared of the Wrong Thing,”
AI Safety Summit, Bletchley Park, sci-fi killer robot talk in full swing.
Meanwhile face-rec is in your subway, in your hallway, in your school,
trained on scraped-up selfies, no consent—that’s the actual tool.
Hiring bots filter résumés, cops flag “risk” from your zip code,
but the rules they sign are “voluntary,” pure PR mode.

(Chorus 5) They’ll regulate the movie-version risk in twenty years,
let the real harms roll out now—that’s the mismatch in the fears.

(Bridge) See the pattern? Every summit runs the same three-act play:
first, name the crisis with the gravest tone they can display,
second, draft a framework full of “should” and “voluntary edges,”
third, go home and do the opposite around the legal hedges.

(Verse 6) “The Assembly Where War Gets Rebranded as Humanitarian Intervention,”
UN Security Council 2011, Libya, “responsibility to protect” did the suspension.
Text said “guard civilians,” NATO bombed for months on end,
regime fell, state collapsed, now it’s armed gangs, no real friend.
Open-air slave markets, rival governments, years of fight,
oil still leaving ports on schedule, someone’s profit looks all right.

(Chorus 6) That’s how you take an oil grab and wrap it in “responsibility,”
same blueprint from Iraq to Libya—check the pattern’s flexibility.

(Outro) So when you hear “unprecedented,” “landmark deal,” “we’re taking action,”
check who’s in the room, who writes the text, who gets the real transaction.
If the same small circle sets the fire, then hosts the global put-it-out,
that’s not chaos, that’s a business model—that’s what gaslighting’s about.
This is your field guide to the performance, your decoder for the swirl,
welcome to the syllabus on How They Gaslight the World.