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Sarcasm is hard. Do you actually believe David Brooks has "Battered Person Syndrome", or do think it applies to all Americans?
by youngerdryas 13y ago
Sarcasm is hard. Do you actually believe David Brooks has "Battered Person Syndrome", or do think it applies to all Americans?
- marshray 13y agoYes, it is. Don't I know it :-) I do not believe that David Brooks has clinical BPS. But, the arguments he makes in his opinion piece display the exact same form of backwards logic that are commonly heard from victims of long-term abuse. Make no mistake: Surveillance is abuse. Over time it will fuck with your mind. Long term mass surveillance is always a destabilizing force upon society, never a stabilizing one.
- lukifer 13y agoSo-called "Stockholm Syndrome" is more the norm than the exception.