• scarabic@lemmy.worldOP
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    11 months ago

    I was thinking about a character in a TV show. He’s a Christian monk who is captured by Viking raiders and kept as a slave. He’s still quite young though. And while he has no freedom, he isn’t whipped or treated like an animal, he just lives as a very low status person. Eventually, after years, he starts wanting to improve his status with the tribe around him. Maybe he’s tired of being at the bottom. Maybe he’s just starving for some kind of human connection. When they come under threat, he asks to join the Viking fighting force. This seems like pretty clear Stockholm Syndrome to me - fighting for the people who enslaved you.

    But is it really that different from waking up as a child in a certain culture and over time, absorbing its ways, and feeling 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?

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          11 months ago

          I’m big on words having meaning and not using words with specific meanings incorrectly.

          • scarabic@lemmy.worldOP
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            11 months ago

            Apparently you’ve also never heard of similes or learned anything through comparisons. Enjoy your robotic application of strict denotations to the objects in your world.

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              11 months ago

              You can compare anything with a simile if you abstract it far enough. It doesn’t make it an accurate statement, though. I’m sure you could find similarities between Bambi and Hitler, but that doesn’t mean the two are interchangeable.

              Stockholm Syndrome and cultural indoctrination are two different things. Stockholm Syndrome is a defense mechanism.

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                11 months ago

                Oh my god you actually included one explanatory sentence there at the end. Imagine if you built an entire argument.

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                    11 months ago

                    I hope it’s also all right to admit when I’m bored, because I think I’ve already given you far too many opportunities to press that “no, I’m correct” button you seem to enjoy so much.

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      11 months ago

      Is the last samurai a story about Stockholm syndrome too?

      What about dances with wolves? Avatar?