I was thinking about a character in a TV show. He’s a Christian monk who is captured by Viki g raiders and kept as a slave. He’s still quite young though and though he has no freedom, he isn’t whipped and treated like an animal, just a low status person. Eventually he starts wanting to win greater status, and asks to join the Viking fighting force. This seems like Stockholm Syndrome to me.
But is it really that different from waking up as a child in a certain culture and over time absorbing it says and the desire to grow your status in that society? How many people absorb their home culture’s ways because they think about them and deem them best? It’s a process of absorption.
So yes, while there’s always a little sass and irony in showerthoughts, I think there’s a connection here with pondering. You didn’t elaborate on your “yeah no” comment at all. Perhaps now you will?
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 9 months ago
Correct. Also, fun fact: the actual origin of Stockholm Syndrome was due to the fact that the hostages were afraid of police incompetence and sided with the terrorists from fear of being killed by over aggressive poorly trained police. Source
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
They also successfully worked to negotiate with the hostage takers when the police didn’t.
After they negotiated their own release they criticised the police in the media, and the police realised that since the hostage leading all of this was a woman, they could just employ a standard abuser’s tactic and call her crazy. Apparently it worked.