The Honour Trap

There are many legends which describe the same phenomenon; Vampirism, the Rover's Return, any story where a person is doomed to return to a particular place, a defining moment, from Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad) to Gail Wynand(Ayn Rand).

It is by means of this trick that our governors seek to maintain their control over us; they hope to render us incapable of escape.
"You can take the man out of England, but you can't take the England out of the man."

In other words, they attempt to inculcate a fake sense of loyalty via traumatic reinforcement, so that we won't go away, or if we do, we will come back.

They seek to 'steal' our souls;the methods?

Violation.
Violation to remove our feelings.Naturally, they don't feel anything themselves, at least nothing positive, but the trick is in associating our 'loss' with a particular place.
It's a long term investment.Long game, long term; they will keep it up for years, keep on walling us in, keep on applying the tourniquets to our minds, so that if we ever do remove ourselves from their sphere of influence, the event is so traumatic we are supposed to be 'unhinged', like the traumatically conditioned (brainwashed) scientists in The Ipcress File(Len Deighton).
They will apply themselves at any time over periods of decades to keep us from escaping-psychologically at least-from the emotional deficit associated with having adjusted to moral holocaust.
We are supposed to return to these damned and discarded shells, like Marley's Ghost(Charles Dickens) to right the wrong.
The sheer number of people I have seen who are paralysed by the fear of losing so much adjustment in one go is truly tragic.

But we have to be utterly ruthless with ourselves.
And hope we don't crack under theh strain.

Thing is, when the first swine have tried doing it to you, you begin to see through it.You develop a sense of humour, ironic and unpleasant humour, for you feel the bites but laugh at them in your quest to thrive, strive and move forward.

I guess I just find it amusing that after 14 years of peace, somebody has tried it on with me again.

I already know I can beat it.
So why worry eh? Let the little shits think they've got me.

Then leave!