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Chapter Six one of the largest banks in Stockholm. They were held for six days by two ex-convicts who threatened their lives but also showed them kindness. To the world’s surprise, all of the hostages strongly resisted the government’s efforts to rescue them and were quite eager to defend their captors. Indeed, several months after the hostages were saved by the police, they still had warm feelings for the men who threatened their lives. Two of the women eventually got engaged to the captors. Psychologist Dee Graham has theorized that Stockholm Syndrome occurs on a societal level. Since our culture is patriarchal, she believes that all women suffer from it - to widely varying degrees, of course. She has expanded on her theories in Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men’s Violence, and Women’s Lives, which is well worth reading. The dynamics of Stockholm Syndrome directly address the issue of those who view their “abductions” as “desirable”. Victims have to When there is a socially imposed mandate to “think nice thoughts” and view the world in a positive light, even in the face of evidence to the contrary, people find it necessary to become highly attuned to the approval or disapproval of the “social norms”. As a result, they are motivated to learn how to think in social norms, and do not examine their own, honest experiences. As victims of Societal Stockholm Syndrome, we are encouraged to develop psychological characteristics pleasing to the system. These include: dependency, lack of initiative, inability to act, decide, think; strategies for staying alive, including denial, attentiveness to the system’s demands, wants, and expressions of approval of the system itself. We are taught to develop fondness for the system accompanied by fear of interference by anyone who challenges the system’s perspective. Most of all, we are conditioned to be overwhelmingly grateful to the system for giving us life. We focus on the system’s kindnesses, not its acts of brutality. Denial of terror and anger, and the perception of the system as omnipotent keep us psychologically attached to the Matrix Control System. High anxiety functions to keep us from seeing available options. Psychophysical stress responses develop. Such persons might even think that ET would land on the White House Lawn to “serve mankind”. This materialist reasoning applied to our reality reduces ideas about other realities to something that is becoming popularly known as memes. A meme is a self-propagating idea, a unit of cultural imitation that, much like a biological or computer virus, effectively programs its own retransmission. They spread through motivating their “hosts” to concentrate on survival, requiring avoidance of direct, honest reaction to destructive treatment.