More than simply developing an affinity for their captor, victims of Post Stockholm Syndrome begin to develop or are coerced into a state of amnesia about their being held hostage in the first place. Under such a condition, maintenance of this anosognosia on the part of the hostages becomes the preeminent priority.

Stockholm Syndrome as a social term was first used after four hostages were taken during a 1973 bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. The hostages in that prosecution defended their captors after being released and would not agree to testify in court against them. Stockholm syndrome is identified through the affinity that hostages may often develop towards their captors, in contraposition to the fear and disdain which an onlooker might feel towards those same captors.¹

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

In the case of Post Stockholm Syndrome, victims bear anosognosia as to the reasons behind why they do what they do. Anosognosia is a forgetting about the reality of being captive in the first place. It is an amnesia about our amnesia.

Accordingly, we hold this current social definition of Stockholm Syndrome:

Stockholm Syndrome

/psychology : human interaction : willful blindness/ : a condition in which hostages develop a psychological alliance with their captors during or after captivity. Emotional bonds may be formed, between captor and captives, during intimate or extensive time together; bonds which however are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims of such captivity.

Wikipedia: Stockholm syndrome

Now for a moment, let’s expand the circumstance of captor and hostage under a Stockholm Syndrome such that it encompasses a substantially and sufficiently longer period of time. A circumstance wherein, because of generational turnover, pluralistic ignorance or mental impairment/injury on the part of the hostages, a milieu of amnesia has begun to set in. An amnesia which blends together, both neutral to positive mythological sentiments toward the captors, as well as a comprehensive forgetting of the circumstances of illegitimate captivity in the first place. Such a context broaches what I call Post Stockholm Syndrome.

Post Stockholm Syndrome

/Philosophy : ethics : malevolence/ : a condition wherein Stockholm Syndrome hostages, more than simply developing an affinity for their captor, begin to develop or are coerced into a state of amnesia about their being held hostage in the first place. Under such a condition, maintenance of this anosognosia on the part of the hostages, through information/science embargo, becomes the preeminent priority.

Captor actions enforcing such amnesia under a Post Stockholm Syndrome circumstance may also be falsely spun by the captor as enforcing ‘The Prime Directive’ – especially if the captor has masqueraded illegally in the role as a deity, sexual/breeding/genetic tyrant, slavemaster, governing body or other form of abusive godship over the hostages during its activities as captor.

In such a circumstance of detection risk, one wherein the captor could be held accountable for its malevolent actions by an outside Authority bearing punitive power – concealment of past activity, a lack of captor detectability or apparent presence, along with a pervasive and enforced collective-amnesia on the part of the hostages are all of paramount importance. Means of enforcing this may include:

• Dividing hostages into entertaining and constantly warring factions
• Denial of essential energy, health and development technology, save for that which will maintain firm order and war footing
• Appointing governing authorities among the hostages who are complicit in an information/science embargo, along with the resulting amnesia and conflict
• Developing ‘Samson Option’ destructive devices that can serve to obliterate everything if the captors are detected/threatened by Outsiders
• Supremacy of ignorance and idea embargo, in the name of holy or rational thought
• Development of embargo-compatible pervasive, holy and club-enforced theologies and atheologies concerning the state of the hostages, fully explaining the circumstances in which they find themselves as being either ‘just’ or completely by chance
• Posing captor activities as random events, or those of a higher enlightened being, or as being derived through an ‘unfathomable love’ for the hostages
• Posing captor activities as just desserts for some offense or group/original sin the hostages have been tricked into believing
• Establishing the false mythology that if the captor is displaced and punished/banished, the captives are destined to receive that very same punishment/banishment for their wrongdoings as well
• Inflicting the hostages with shortened lives bearing copious amounts of induced cerebral impairment, substance abuse, unchecked corruption, mandatory labor, disease, starvation and suffering, taxation, tithing, poverty, famine, addiction, social violence, racial hatred, and war – in order to keep their overall mental acuity, effectiveness and awareness low
• Why alleviate such suffering therefore, when it is the ultimate formula for control? Enforcement benefits through more of this, not less
• Captor enjoying all of the above as a type of power, a form of loosh from human suffering used as an intoxicant, or false clout/belonging which may be used as currency/chronic-addictive to purchase allegiance to its scheme.

Such a captor may face the inevitability of having to become ‘one-in-the-same’ or of the same genetic fabric as its hostages, in order to evade eventual enforcement of the penalty of Law upon them for such malevolent actions. In this way, captors hope to circumvent the Law and skillfully confiscate that which they sought through the hostage-taking to begin with.

After all, if the hostages indeed bear the same fate as the captors, why then would outside Authorities hesitate in their intervention at all?

A captive hostage circumstance is always based upon lies – no matter how popular, loving or righteous those lies might be codified – no matter how random, natural or scientific they may be framed.

Just as with mathematics, the ethical skeptic can extend the logical reach and calculus of philosophy, to stand inside theoretical circumstances which are not readily apparent to the average philosopher. Does such a circumstance regarding Post Stockholm Syndrome exist for humanity on Earth today? I do not know the answer to that question from an epistemological standpoint – however, just as with most principles of humanity, while I can’t define its presence, I know when I am in it.

The Ethical Skeptic, “Post Stockholm Syndrome”; The Ethical Skeptic, WordPress, 8 Mar 2020; Web, https://theethicalskeptic.com/?p=44557

1. Wikipedia: Stockholm syndrome; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome