“Safety” has grown up to be an important god over the past few decades, no?
It is an intersting concept to consider in the post 9/11 world.
Liberal definition of safety...the snowflake safe spaces, somebody having a different opinion than yours, somebody rejecting your morality, rejection of secularism are all threats in the minds of our young people. Somewhere along the line they were taught that appeasement is safety, unless the other isn’t willing to enable appeasement. Which on the face of it seems ‘safe.’ Yet, they ignore the elephant in the room (haha) of Islam/sharia law? They are blind to what appeasement bring to the middle east and yet are willing to embrace it?
Enter Conservatives with our definition of safety. Strength, courage, moral absolutes, Godly wisdom. As much as we want to yell at them to grow-up already, psychologically they can’t. I believe we are actually witnessing mass Stockholm Syndrome with a dash of PTSD. It is the only conclusion I can finally draw as to the level of empathy on display.
“There are four key components that generally lead to the development of Stockholm syndrome:
a hostage’s development of positive feelings towards their captor,
no previous hostage-captor relationship,
a refusal by hostages to cooperate with police forces and other government authorities,
and a hostage’s belief in the humanity of their captor,
for the reason that when a victim holds the same values as the aggressor, they cease to be perceived as a threat,” Mackenzie, Ian K. “The Stockholm Syndrome Revisited: Hostages, Relationships, Prediction, Control, and Psychological Science”. Journal For Police Crisis Negotiations. 4: 5–21 – via Elsevior.
Here is an article as a great example for thought and consideration. It might be a way to understand what the heck is going on in their minds and maybe how we can start deprogramming them? https://attackthesystem.com/2011/09/02/a-national-stockholm-syndrome-where-cultural-prisoners-are-willing-to-abandon-critical-thinking-and-the-scientific-method-in-order-to-survive/