The King is dead. Long live the King.

[swedish chef]

By iqbal.latif

In the eyes of 'The Big Brother:'

''All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.''

North Koreans are mass victim of the Symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome! Definitely, all this public expression of grief and howling cannot be made up. 99.99999999 percent are definitely weeping and uncontrollably lamenting!

Their Messiah has died, the captives are without the surety of the captor! North Korean leader Kim Jong Il remained securely in power, he inherited power from his father in 1994, and led his nation through a distressing regime of mass starvation. Kim was the last survivor of a Cold War-era. Kim Jong-Un is tipped to be North Korea's next leader and propel the Kim dynasty into a third generation is even more of an enigma than his mercurial father Kim Jong-Il. Kim Jong-Un's life is shrouded in mystery, but in recent years he has been pushed to the forefront as his father apparently speeded up plans for the nation's second dynastic succession, after suffering a stroke in August 2008. In September 2010 the son was made a four-star general and given senior ruling party posts, despite his lack of any military experience.

Kim Jong-Il was a perfect example of the kind of leadership and society that 99% and 1 % debate wants to create. A mass equalizer of people talents like Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Lenin and many others. The 99%-1% debaters and well-wishers are right now looking into the prospects; as they look into the abyss.

North Korean state media urged people to pledge allegiance to Kim's youngest son and heir apparent Kim Jong-Un, aged in his late 20s, after the stunning announcement that his father had died. North Korea's news agency reported that he had died after having a heart attack on a train, adding that he had been patient of cardiac and cerebrovascular diseases for a stretched period. The pictures of North Koreans weeping hysterically over the death of Kim Jong-il are surprising some political pundits, are they stage managed or real display of mass grief. If so why do people are grieving so much for a man who harnessed them on a leash.

Credit goes to Kim Jong-il to create perfect equality of mass dearth and deficiency. On the Gini coefficient scale which is a measure of the inequality of a distribution, where a value of 0 expressing perfect equality where everyone has equal shares of income and a value of 1 expresses maximal inequality where only one person has all the income he created a perfect 0. A really100 percent equal society, within 24,346,229 North Koreans there was no 99 percent and 1 %, there were 99.99999999 who were equal and 100 ruling families with his on the top the most unequal plus some nukes. His society is a forerunner for all those egalitarian pundits who think forced parity will result in new heavens on earth.

Many people have an excellent idea of what Stockholm syndrome is about. The origin of the term is derived from an incident in 1973, two men entered the Kreditbanken bank in Stockholm, Sweden, intending to rob it. When police entered the bank, the robbers shot them, and a hostage situation ensued. The robbers held four people at gunpoint for six days, locked in a bank vault, even strapped with explosives and strained to put nooses around their own necks. The police rescue attempt were resisted by the hostages, the hostages fought the police, defending their captors and blaming the police.

In order for Stockholm syndrome to occur in any given situation, at least three traits must be present:

A severely uneven power relationship in which the captor dictates what the prisoner can and cannot do.

The threat of death or physical injury to the prisoner at the hands of the captor.

A self-preservation instinct on the part of the prisoner.

One of the freed hostages set up a fund to cover the hostage-takers' legal defence fees. Thus "Stockholm syndrome" was born, and psychologists everywhere had a name for this classic captor-prisoner phenomenon. North Korean dictator ticked all the boxes highlighted above on mass level.

North Koreans were slaves not partners in the government; the dictator dictated his terms and they suffered from unparalleled state scrutiny, their livelihood and lives depended on his good will, in turn the North Koreans considered him as their saviour. No food, no entrepreneurship but all total egalitarianism based on very little to go around, a whole nation became a mass victim of the Symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome.


The King is dead. Long live the King.

 

[swedish chef]

Stockholm Syndrome

In psychology, Stockholm Syndrome is an apparently paradoxical psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness.The FBI’s Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly 27% of victims show evidence of Stockholm Syndrome.

The Syndrome is named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, in which bank employees were held hostage from August 23 to August 28, 1973. In this case, the victims became emotionally attached to their captors, and even defended them after they were freed from their six-day ordeal. The term "Stockholm Syndrome" was coined by the criminologist and psychiatrist Nils Bejerot, who assisted the police during the robbery, and referred to the Syndrome in a news broadcast. It was originally defined by psychiatrist Frank Ochberg to aid the management of hostage situations. The term has also been used to explain some feelings of later generations affected by colonialism such as in the Algerian case by the French or the Indian by the British.

 

[krizon]

Of course the grief isn't real - the people are competing to see who looks the most hysterical, but it's very hard to actually produce tears that won't come, and when you look at their cheeks, they're dry. Apart from that, it is culturally correct to make an outward show of grief, as the Chinese and Japanese and also the ululating Arabs are approved of doing at funerals. Remember our own Christian Bible, where there was 'wailing and gnashing of teeth' and 'rending of garments' at the death of beloved souls, but especially leaders? We don't do funerals like 'em any more!

I don't know when Mr Latif last attended a burial for one of his (presumably) Muslim contacts, but it is de rigeur to howl, wring your hands, and even tear at your clothes in grief. Doesn't matter if the departed wasn't that dear - it's a cultural norm and the North Koreans are following a habit accorded their leaders down the centuries. As for Stockholm Syndrome, it's slightly less that, I think, than knowing they're being filmed by the repressive agents of power and control, and no-one wants to be accused of being suspiciously ungriefstricken - the labour camp option is pretty much a one-way ticket to starvation and death.

 

[swedish chef]

Yes your probably right Krizon 'Big Brother' is watching them.
Ululating - this had me reaching for my dictionary - great word I've not come across before.
Thank God we don't do funerals like that anymore, they are depressing enough. A lesson should be learned from the Irish when it comes to good funerals.

As far as I know the last funeral he attended was his good friend Salman Taseer who was assassinated because of his opposition to the blasphemy laws. Sadly another voice of free speech silenced permanently.

 

[krizon]

A voice for free speech and free thinking - not what the imams around the world want promoted, SC. A very terrible loss, but at the same time a martyr, in a true sense, of the slow, painful process of trying to encourage people to determine their own consciences and ethics, without living in fear of the rigid imposition of draconian religious edicts. Interesting that you brought up Stockholm Syndrome - it's not that every Muslim in the world agrees with the imams, not by a long shot, but they have to fall in line or risk being murdered for raising their heads above the safe parapet of religious conformity. Thus, they give the impression of agreeing with their religious leaders by not disagreeing with them.