Caught in a vast Stockholm syndrome, the alienated, the oppressed, and the colonized are siding with the system that holds them hostage.
(Jean Baudrillard)
"Governance for health: attempts of governments a…
Caught in a vast Stockholm syndrome, the alienated, the oppressed, and the colonized are siding with the system that holds them hostage.
(Jean Baudrillard)
"Governance for health: attempts of governments and others to steer communities, whole countries
or groups of countries in the pursuit of health and well-being as a collective goal"
"Smart governance: one way to describe the major institutional adaptations observed in public
and international organizations in the face of increasing interdependence. In a knowledge
society, policy decisions based on purely normative considerations lose ground to decisions informed
by evidence. At the same time, decision-making requires new methods for coping with
and accounting for the associated uncertainties that abound when knowledge – always questionable,
always revisable – supersedes majority values as the basis for authority."
Sources consulted:
https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/171334/RC62BD01-Governance-for-Health-Web.pdf
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28930/w28930.pdf
The Stockholm syndrome refers to the paradoxical
development of reciprocal positive feelings between
hostages and their captors…
Four conditions form the basis for the formation of
the Stockholm syndrome:
(i) perceived threat to one’s
physical or psychological survival at the hands of an
abuser(s);
(ii) perceived small kindnesses from the
abuser to the victim;
(iii) isolation from perspectives
other than those of the abuser; and
(iv) the inescapability
of the situation.
Anxiety and fear have been essential to survival.
Further, anxiety disorder subtypes are associated
with symptoms that make sense from a survival
perspective
Different mammals manifest different appeasement
behaviours. Many reduce their apparent size, signalling ‘no threat’.
Humans cower, bow, kneel, prostrate themselves…
Appeasement is associated with the emotions fear
and shame.
Fear motivates defense; shame facially and otherwise signals ‘no threat’. Shame is an emotion that is so uncomfortable that dissociation is often involved
Excerpts from:
Traumatic entrapment, appeasement and complex
post-traumatic stress disorder: evolutionary
perspectives of hostage reactions, domestic abuse
and the Stockholm syndrome
by Chris Cantor, John Price
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