The robustness of my convictions are in direct correlation (I have to keep in the back of my mind that correlation doesn't imply causation) with the quality of those convictions. It is the difference between fragility and robustness; between dropping a conjecture on a moments notice at the slightest fact based push-back compared to a well-established, well-researched, multiple unassociated and individually confirmed experimentations/observations, high fidelity falsifiability, universal - yet acutely specific - theory being able to withstand sustained critique, tests, opinionated derision & assailment, despite who, from cranks & amateurs all the way to experts with overwhelming authority in both experience and knowledge in that field (although I might easily discount what a crank says, I'll probably listen more closely to an expert, so).
If some of my held convictions are easily changed, just means that those probably weren't valuable to begin with.
I guess it's our ridiculous Viking heritage. That, and the fools who have the audacity of actually being proud of descending from a bunch of raping, pillaging assholes. We need the law of Jante now more than ever here. Because of this, I'd argue evil, culture, I think the more people are more aware how contemptible it is to be proud of being descended from Vikings might show them how these malignant values, both human and ideological, just might be bad in and of themself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
Here, the rules of what not to do think about yourself, grounds yourself and makes you appreciative, albeit admittedly perversely, about a collective existence in a society, both as an individual and in social norms with other people in that environment. That is quintessential Scandinavian. The law of Jante were meant as a sarcastic critique of society, but the author behind it captured almost perfectly the Scandinavian spirit.
The perverse individualism of thinking we're so fucking great because we're from Viking ancestors (as-if that meant anything today, pfffft) stands in stark contrast to the Law of Jante. Good. Fight fire with fire, I say.
If some of my held convictions are easily changed, just means that those probably weren't valuable to begin with.
(November 2, 2020 at 4:44 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: [...]
-the smugness of Scandinavians.
Boru
I guess it's our ridiculous Viking heritage. That, and the fools who have the audacity of actually being proud of descending from a bunch of raping, pillaging assholes. We need the law of Jante now more than ever here. Because of this, I'd argue evil, culture, I think the more people are more aware how contemptible it is to be proud of being descended from Vikings might show them how these malignant values, both human and ideological, just might be bad in and of themself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
Here, the rules of what not to do think about yourself, grounds yourself and makes you appreciative, albeit admittedly perversely, about a collective existence in a society, both as an individual and in social norms with other people in that environment. That is quintessential Scandinavian. The law of Jante were meant as a sarcastic critique of society, but the author behind it captured almost perfectly the Scandinavian spirit.
The perverse individualism of thinking we're so fucking great because we're from Viking ancestors (as-if that meant anything today, pfffft) stands in stark contrast to the Law of Jante. Good. Fight fire with fire, I say.
