You've all heard of Stockholm Syndrome, right, where traumatised kidnap victims start to sympathise with their captors no matter how brutal or alien?Stockholm syndrome can be seen as a form of traumatic bonding, which does not necessarily require a hostage scenario, but which describes "strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other." [source: WIKIPEDIA]
That's what we all share, myself included - strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other.
"But we're not being held hostage, Mike!" you scream your denial at the computer screen at your clever little touch screen like all the consumer-deafened world.
"Oh, yes you are being held hostage," comes the calm response. Yes, you are suffering under the fantasy of Stockholm Syndrome.
You are all (all of you) sympathisers with your heartless corporate captors. What are jobs? What are crimes? What are mortgages? What are dues to pay? What are loans? What is rent, and rates, and taxes but Gods to bow down to? What are birth certificates and private ownership and legal passports but arms around your throat? What are all these 'societal inventions' if not MECHANISMS FOR YOUR COMPLIANCE to the whim of your ruthless captors. And you love it ... or at least you seem to. Let's say you've 'grown to live with it', within its laid-down arbitrary strictures, docile; like lambs to the slaughter.
And you don't even need to incite Civil War to change the way your world works. You only have to think. You only have to DO RIGHT BY FREE PLANET and it's all yours. But your suffering from the empathy with captors thing. You'll never claim REAL OWNERSHIP of PLANET EARTH for your children's children. You'll never admit that you're in a precarious situation at the hands of your GAME PLAYING captors. You believe, no you're certain, that they won't kill you all if it means THEY WIN.
You do realize they'll do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING in the name of their 'god' PROFIT? You realize that, right? Free Planet, why does it seem so implausible, to You The People, right now?
What's the BIG STUMBLING BLOCK?
