{"id":4957,"date":"2011-12-21T17:28:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T17:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4957"},"modified":"2011-12-21T17:28:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T17:28:45","slug":"historyguy99-a-national-case-of-stockholm-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4957","title":{"rendered":"HistoryGuy99: &#8220;A National Case of Stockholm Syndrome&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HistoryGuy99<\/strong>\u00a0in a spot-on post on the death of <strong>Kim Jong-Il:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/hgworld.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/national-case-of-stockholm-syndrome.html\" target=\"_blank\">A National Case of Stockholm Syndrome<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>&#8230;.Kim Jong&#8217;s death moves the dynasty\u00a0cycle to a point that follows the old Chinese proverb about dynasties or even successful families,\u00a0that says, &#8220;Wealth only lasts three generations. The first generation builds it up, the second consolidates it, and the third squanders it.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This proverb is a metaphor for the rise and fall of dynasties down through the ages. The dynasties start when a charismatic visionary leader comes to power, and is followed by less talented and motivated leaders until the dynasty falls and chaos reins until another leader emerges to repeat the cycle. Most nations have moved beyond that cycle today. Even China, the source of the proverb, is\u00a0moving forward with\u00a0succeeding generations of leaders\u00a0that unlike preceding dynasties, mirror\u00a0institutions that have learned to seek new charismatic leadership, instead of relying on\u00a0a family blood line that invites decadence to\u00a0the point of being\u00a0endemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where does this leave people of North Korea? Listening to the mass wailing and demonstrations of grief as if each family had lost their beloved children, the thought that crossed my mind was that the entire country was a victim of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stockholm_syndrome\">Stockholm Syndrome<\/a>\u00a0were the nation had their sense of esteem so suppressed that they actually came to love their masters. &#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Read the rest <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hgworld.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/national-case-of-stockholm-syndrome.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Very much like the death of <strong>Joseph Stalin<\/strong>. Many of those shedding tears would have been en route to the Gulag had the old monster lived a few years longer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HistoryGuy99\u00a0in a spot-on post on the death of Kim Jong-Il: A National Case of Stockholm Syndrome &#8230;.Kim Jong&#8217;s death moves the dynasty\u00a0cycle to a point that follows the old Chinese proverb about dynasties or even successful families,\u00a0that says, &#8220;Wealth only lasts three generations. The first generation builds it up, the second consolidates it, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4958,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions\/4958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}