Nicola Staff asked 2 years ago
This is another insightful creative breakthrough you are making, in understanding human psychodynamics, and is the perfect explanation for why it is so inexplicable that a person wronged by another could be made to overlook the mistreatment and actually develop an attachment, interdependence, and a yearning to be with the perpetrator even when given a chance to escape the relationship. This runs not only counter to logic but common sense and reason. So this mysterious phenomenon, that has psychologists doing quite a fancy dance to explain, is really addressing a more complex external manipulation with the assumption it is the mind of the victim alone creating a kind of false acclamation as a coping mechanism to misfortune. When, in actuality, both parties are being manipulated to create an interdependence—the perpetrator needs to be a perpetrator and needs a victim to carry out that role; in the same way, the victim of the perpetrator is manipulated to give themselves up to the role, to the extent they will put their head on the chopping block willingly, when in a normal mode of action every fiber of their being would rebel and would cause them to fight to the death to resist rather than be a willing accomplice in their own mistreatment.
Keep in mind that such manipulations are the norm in your world because they are arranged to be done wholesale for all kinds of circumstances, and to whole groups and categories of human beings as an aggregate. So, much of this is accomplished without custom individual fine-tuning in the manipulations themselves, but the latter also occurs quite often, especially when there is a high-value target involved, and this is true of circumstances that become newsworthy in some way, because they are often orchestrated for that purpose, to have an influence on the broader culture and not just mess with those participating directly in the interchange in question.
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