Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Climate Change, COVID-19, Human Rights, Politics
Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response. It occurs when hostages or abuse victims bond with their captors or abusers. This psychological connection develops over the course of the days, weeks, months, or even years of captivity or abuse.
Ref: https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/stockholm-syndrome#definition
Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a mental illness and a form of child abuse. The caretaker of a child, most often a mother, either makes up fake symptoms or causes real symptoms to make it look like the child is sick.
Ref: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001555.htm
Let’s face it: this nation has always been in a Cold Civil War since 1865. We’re eleven countries with distinct ways of digesting the news media. Social media is a means to hack our minds into silos. We’re on separate mental continents. “United States” is an oxymoron and cosmic tragicomedy. We’re more like fractured states with fifty different opinions.
The Stockholm tribe drank the kool-aid with Jim Jones. They are unfazed in their chosen Twilight Zone dimension, and totally nonplussed why we can’t understand their secret, klansman decoder ring Morse code. They have waited forty years for “trickledown” to actually work, and like Jed Clampett, make them Beverly Hills billionaire hillbillies. Cigarettes don’t cause cancer, climate change is a Chinese hoax; vaccines cause autism, gravity can be overcome with the power of positive thinking, huckster name-it-and-claim-it faith healers can blow COVID away, and Hillary is head of a flesh-eating, pedophile cult that an orange faux billionaire is going to save us all from, exposing the “deep state.” Logic doesn’t work with these people. You can’t tell them anything. They’re lemmings in suicide vests, to quote MSNBC’s, Chris Hayes. They are the 69,151,070 that think the last four years of caged children, attempted Muslim bans, selling out our soldiers in Afghanistan, 230,000+ dead and climbing, lying like he breaths and farts, breaking every commandment and law is EXACTLY what they want four more years (or, more) of!
The Munchausen crew watches reruns of OG Star Trek, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, the new Discovery series, even though we know warp drive is by Einstein impossible, but it’s cool to think we might live beyond our hubris, homophobia, racism, misogyny, sexism, and stupidity maybe repairing the damage to the planet’s environment without killing ourselves. We balance fantasy with the scientifically-accurate Expanse. We typically were the science nerds, poets and artists shoved into lockers, harrassed by the “cool kids,” male or female, sometimes experiencing violence. We find ourselves in a perpetual, near-ending, abusive relationship with the Stockholm click, wondering why our rational outlines of thought and snappy repartee on Twitter hasn’t totally shut down and shamed the inmates at Arkham. 73,050,225 of us are holding our breaths and praying that the electoral college doesn’t screw us over this time, like the principal ignoring the bullies that harassed us.
Sensing he just might not be able to gaslight, steal, sue, whine, or slump across the victory line to “own the libs,” or stay out of prison, Biff Tannen has come up with a “plan B” to continue trolling humanity until his last breath (if he’s not arrested), or at some point when trans fat from fast food, and Darwin do their necessary work.
Physics and Nano 