The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast

Stockholm Syndrome

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Episode notes

How can you avoid the pitfalls of subservience and oppression? What does being born to lead really mean? Doesn’t it lead to egotism?

These are just a few of the questions Stuart and William discuss as they explore the following question that was sent by listener Alex in Poland:

“Does the reaction to the Queen's death show how a society could be subservient to its oppressor? Is this Stockholm Syndrome in daily life?”

They go on to talk about how royalty often exists off the back of colonialism and power, together with how you can understand other people better by understanding your own history, good and bad. Plus how the royal family are just another family, they’re no higher than us really, and that we shouldn’t feel too subservient to them.

They explore why there is often deference to a perceived higher power and if in the UK we’re an oppressed as society? Neither Stuart and William are royalists and call for the bad stuff from the past to be acknowledged so we can all move on?

Do you have to accept being lead? Big questions!

This podcast's overall themes are nature, philosophy, climate, the human condition, sustainability, and social justice.

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In this episode they talk about Environmental Debate Live & Unscripted which is happening on the 27th May at the Bothy Vineyard, in rural Oxfordshire. Here’s a link to book tickets for this event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/environmental-debate-live-unscripted-tickets-514832145807

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