Neo, while Stockholm Syndrome applies particularly to hostages, the mechanism that leads to it is universal. That's why armies can train soldiers to do pretty much anything.
Like it or not, we are still very much in monkey mode, with alpha males and females rampaging around bossing others about. That's where Stockholm Syndrome comes from; eons of tribal dominance hierarchy evolution.
With 96% of people being UnAmerican, I think it's not at all certain that USA mudder-fudder ways will permeate the world. Many Americans have fled the culture and have married into and live in other cultures.
But what I'm talking about is a global tribe developing which is symbiotic with cyberspace which will not have a geopolitical locus. There are many groups spread around the world whose primary allegiance is to their group rather than their nation of citizenship. Jews, Catholics, Islam, for example are very often firstly allied to their superstitions. Families are spread around the world too and the first loyalty is to family before country.
In the end, cyberspace will be so big and tough that the cyberspace acolytes will be like mitochondria in a human. Certainly part of it and maybe even a necessary ingredient, but not really the most obvious aspect of what's going on. We'll be back to serdom if not outright slavery.
Nations are good for physical tribal stuff, but not much good for the big picture.
Mqurice
Edit... I see you've gone for the day. But in cyberspace, one is never gone, until the Last Post. |
