Here's a springboard article, if you want to do your own research.

https://www.nzz.ch/english/how-the-myth-of-stockholm-syndrome-came-from-a-media-driven-hostage-spectacle-ld.1752897

The woman, based on whom the term was coined (the psychiatrist never even talked to her) wrote an autobiography "I became Stockholm Syndrome".

There's also the works of Allan Wade, a Canadian psychologist, who has talked to the victims throughout his career.

Basically when you're at the whims of an armed lunatic, you might cozy up to them in order to appease them. The victims were also really afraid of the police coming in and shooting them. Which is pretty justified, considering the police couldn't even identify the perpetrator before conceding on his demands and bringing in his prison buddy.

The guy with a gun, whom they've been talking to for days and has not hurt them in the slightest looked much less dangerous than the impending doom of the police barging in and shooting the wrong person.

Stockholm syndrome was made up to cover for police incompetence

I love how every single source emphasizes it's "single-planet", just because it's by Hello Games.

Cause fantasy games with dragons are famously known to all contain interstellar travel.

The only Jesse Watters clip I can get behind is the one where his mom tells him how disappointed she is in him for lying to people for profit.

The US also has a tendency of exporting its nonsense to the rest of the world. So it's not like we're safe out here watching the clown show.

See Myanmar justifying its 2021 coup d'état by "election fraud" (wonder where they got that idea) and Bolsonaro's fanbase doing a more violent copycat version of Jan 6 in Brasil as examples.

A gag order has since been lifted. Whether it's the one that would cover this, I have no bloody clue.

And frankly the fact, you even need to think about which gag order is in effect, is some peak trash reality TV drama. Which figures.

I love how just a year ago, he was the one to call out FTX.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones and all that…

The whole industry seems like a criminal plot at this point.

I have a whole fucking family, who lived through the USSR. Not a single one of them misses it. Being spied on every step you take, my grandma has the “you never know who’s watching” mentality to this day.

That’s not to say they don’t hate the current regime, but it’s nothing compared to the absolute atrocities of the USSR’s secret police.

Well, I’m from a post-USSR country and a substantial part of this was the criminalization of homelessness. Can’t have homeless people, if you lock them up (be it in a prison or asylum).

Then again, just about anyone, who did not conform to the party’s message got locked up. Getting your place bugged at the slightest hint you might be up to something disagreeable and all that good stuff. The secret police could disappear and or beat you up without any real justification.

I hate late-stage capitalism as much as you, but coming from a country that’s been through this, I am extremely reluctant to give the rotten and frankly repugnant USSR regime any credit.

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I kinda have the inverse with anxiety.
I don’t realize how incredibly anxious I am all the bloody time, until I have that brief rare window without it.

I don’t think it’s as simple as that. Science is messy and knowing its limitations is just as important as knowing its conclusion.

Scientific opinion can and should be able to change pretty rapidly, the educational system can’t.

Besides, a cardiologist is highly unlikely to be able to reliably tell whether a neurological study’s conclusions are sound, or not. Let alone someone, who isn’t even a doctor.

To top it all up, the monetary incentives in academia are about as corrupt, as it gets. It wasn’t so long ago, when studies about how smoking tobacco isn’t actually harmful, or addictive, got published in mainstream journals (funded by the tobacco industry, of course).

The result is being taught science that was disproven 20 years ago. I think primary education should focus just as much on critical thinking as it does on learning facts at the very minimum.

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