I'm Norwegian, and I can say that Norway is IMHO a very unprincipled and often illogical country.
bonesss 6 hours ago [-]
Trotsky complained about the same thing when he was improperly arrested in Norway under a law they made up a few days later.
> Trotsky described this period as an incredibly cynical persecution by a "socialist" government, noting that his jailers were, ironically, fascists under the control of the Norwegian ministry.
> … the police officers guarding him were members of the Norwegian Nazi party, Nasjonal Samling
As I recall, Trotsky likened his position to Ibsens 1882 play An Enemy of The People, a story about a Doctor who is lauded for exposing contamination at a local spa only to have the press and then people turn against him when local power brokers highlight the risk to their finances. The press turns on him, then the people.
In modern terms we call that reaction DARVO, it indicates specific psychological modalities. Norway is rotten with it.
Trotsky found resonance between his treatment and the solitude and loneliness of that truth telling Doctor beset by a hostile society far more concerned with protecting internal corruption than truth.
Ibsen himself was chased out of the country, writing this play in response, creating a world-famous rebuke of local corruption carried out by self righteous liars warping socialist language for self-interest, and the quiet victim blaming herd that would support those bad actors (or be the next to be excommunicated).
Cancellation by a Russian friendly press, in modern parlance.
Saying one thing, doing another. Saying one thing while doing another. Unprincipled, yes, ‘incredibly cynical’, yes… Logical though. It’s only not logical if you believe their words. “Arbeit macht frei” is not for logic, it is for duping, to mock, a one-sided joke.
Socialists, Nazis, their lamer ideological cousins, and anti-semites all have that mocking quality about their illogic. That’s because they’re saying one thing, but doing another. The smirks let you know they know.
metalman 6 hours ago [-]
I have met several jw survivors personaly, and the story of how jw is ONLY a cult never quite gets the traction it needs to use them as a type case for the line between real or true spiritualism and religious belefs and
cults that are always predetory, often violent, never open and decent.
One of the strangest parts of the jw's is
the pressure to buy food through the cult itself, that and they are book burners, who destroy any books that come into there possesion that do not conform with there beliefs.
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> Trotsky described this period as an incredibly cynical persecution by a "socialist" government, noting that his jailers were, ironically, fascists under the control of the Norwegian ministry.
> … the police officers guarding him were members of the Norwegian Nazi party, Nasjonal Samling
As I recall, Trotsky likened his position to Ibsens 1882 play An Enemy of The People, a story about a Doctor who is lauded for exposing contamination at a local spa only to have the press and then people turn against him when local power brokers highlight the risk to their finances. The press turns on him, then the people.
In modern terms we call that reaction DARVO, it indicates specific psychological modalities. Norway is rotten with it.
Trotsky found resonance between his treatment and the solitude and loneliness of that truth telling Doctor beset by a hostile society far more concerned with protecting internal corruption than truth.
Ibsen himself was chased out of the country, writing this play in response, creating a world-famous rebuke of local corruption carried out by self righteous liars warping socialist language for self-interest, and the quiet victim blaming herd that would support those bad actors (or be the next to be excommunicated).
Cancellation by a Russian friendly press, in modern parlance.
Saying one thing, doing another. Saying one thing while doing another. Unprincipled, yes, ‘incredibly cynical’, yes… Logical though. It’s only not logical if you believe their words. “Arbeit macht frei” is not for logic, it is for duping, to mock, a one-sided joke.
Socialists, Nazis, their lamer ideological cousins, and anti-semites all have that mocking quality about their illogic. That’s because they’re saying one thing, but doing another. The smirks let you know they know.