Zev Porat

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Stockholm Syndrome spreads to children in N. Korea

A video released by RT on Youtube shows the hysteria spreading to the children of N. Korea; an apparent mourning by the masses which some have suggested is coerced under threat of violence or paid for by the puppeteers.


But this is no ordinary situation. N. Korea has just entered its third generation of isolated tyranny much like a person trapped in the basement of someone's house being traumatized for many years. Envision the people of N. Korea as one person. Now imagine that person being abused for several years and then discovering that person in the basement of the perpetrators house. Stockholm Syndrome easily applies in this context.

"In psychology, Stockholm Syndrome is an apparently paradoxical psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them" - Wikipedia
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