In the old days, the king of Norway used a sword when he wanted attention. In 2024, the royal house receives attention for “bodily violations”, cocaine and angels. While our future queen has contact with the victim, and the son accused of violence points to mental disorders and drug use. And on the sidelines stand the royalists with flags and tears, and understand everything so very well. Dear countrymen and women, how about a little recognition of reality and a little self-criticism in the country where a comeback politician from the FRP now claims, perhaps rightly, that Norwegian politicians have always cultivated problems and weak groups. In the country where a couple of hundred unnamed, poor young people from the capital every single night are allowed to freely wreak havoc in the streets with knives, drugs and explosives. Where are we heading, and where is the will to solve the problem? Where are the instruments, and where are they responsible? Where are the politicians? Where are the police and the judiciary? Where are the morals, and where are the consequences? Where is the healthy engagement? Reason? Where is the community? Where are we? Is something happening out there? Do we do anything but talk? On the radio, in newspapers and in TV debates. At Marienlyst or in the sun on the edge of the pier in Arendal. Apparently not. Everything just keeps going, and everything just gets scarier and more expensive. Social problems and vulnerable social groups are increasing, and budgets are getting bigger. Everyone who wants financial help should get it. All the more than one hundred thousand Norwegian young people who cannot or do not want to work, and all those on short-term sick leave with coryza and some other syndrome. The assistive devices must become more and larger, the record number of employees in the public sector must set new world records. We have enough for money. If you want it, come and get it. The wallet is open, wide open. It’s just a matter of supplying yourself. You don’t even have to say thank you. Because Norway is the world’s richest country, and the world’s best country to live in. And the world’s most expensive country to operate in! Almost twice as expensive as, for example, our neighboring country Finland. We all have a great time, we live on a cloud of money, problems and welfare benefits, we complain, we demand and we get. We travel to the cabin on Thursdays, we have a home office on Mondays, we get high on cocaine and red wine, we eat tons of pizza, we keep getting fatter, we tap like crazy on our cell phones, stare to death at brain dead TV entertainment, and complains about the interest rate and the krone exchange rate. But we need more, we want more. Much more. While productivity is declining and elderly, sick and helpless people are increasing in number. While we lack hundreds of thousands of immigrants to do all our underpaid jobs that we don’t want ourselves. To wash, to look after, to clean, to serve, to drive a taxi, to help us in the bathroom. While the war rages in Europe and the Middle East, where innocent soldiers and civilians are slaughtered for no reason. While Märtha will soon marry again, and the press and the rest of the nation will go wild and indulge in gossip and brain-dead wedding hype. While our proud farming industry engages in the world’s most brutal animal abuse, and kills our fjords. While the capitalists flee the country, and Jonas and Erna fight at the gallops over political differences that mean nothing at all. That the son of our future queen did not wear silk gloves in a drunken encounter with his ex-lover, and great-aunt Märtha Louise loves angels, and is going to marry a fellow who sells home-made medallions that can heal us, is both tragic and comical. The negative social development goes from the top of the social pyramid all the way down to the gutter in some alley in Oslo or Bergen. No one escapes. We’re all riding the wave, while the government puts forward yet another perspective message, and the oil fund reaches new heights. These are the realities, these are the facts. We not only cultivate selfishness, problems and weak groups, we cultivate ineptitude, abdication of responsibility, laziness, excuses and “time constraints”. We cultivate the jokes and the problems. And we can afford to grow it all together. In any case, until we burst with obesity, until the account runs out, until the capitalist system breaks its neck, until we all snort cocaine, and the green shift came far too late. Published 24/08/2024, at 11.04
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Dear countrymen – Speech
