Stockholm Syndrome

Frogblog’s latest post about just another day in America is sobering, and I might have written it myself a while back (although not as elegantly).

But having struggled through anger, denial, bargaining, depression and reached the acceptance stage, I can now follow America’s freefall with sad detachment.

William Gibson nails it in his latest book, Spook Country:

America had developed Stockholm syndrome toward its own government, post 9/11.