tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post2178150915305897731..comments2024-01-08T04:16:25.601-08:00Comments on Ché (What You Call Your) Pasa: The Cruelty FactorChé Pasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-72692013219043546822011-07-26T15:28:14.115-07:002011-07-26T15:28:14.115-07:00The 2004 Ames story on Norwegian Black Metal and t...The 2004 Ames story on <a href="http://exiledonline.com/black-metal-nation-how-norway-spawned-the-worlds-most-violent-rightwing-metalheads/" rel="nofollow">Norwegian Black Metal</a> and the murderousness of its practitioners, is really something, but you know America's Norwegian Uncle, Garrison Keillor, has been telling tales of the dark and murderous side of Being Norwegian for many a long year on the radio. I never doubted him myself. Norway is a dark and cold country in the wintertime, and the sun never sets in the summer. It makes people go mad. <i>Berserk</i> is a Norse word, they tell me. I think I can understand.<br /><br />As for the Dignity issue with Berwick/Breivik, it really makes a mess of the Global Dignity campaign's message. Someone in one of their videos asks Desmond Tutu -- I think it is -- what do you do about your enemies. "Ideally, you don't make enemies!" Yes, well. Easy to say, not so easy to do. <br /><br />From what I can tell, at least, this man was never lacking for Dignity and being treated with consummate Dignity by others. He was the son of diplomats (apparently both his parents were in the Norwegian diplomatic service.) Materially, he never wanted for anything, of course. And from his many pictures, it is clear he was physically quite handsome, almost pretty (this may have changed as he became a heavier user of steroids, apparently as a body-building aid). <br /><br />The problem wasn't that he wasn't treated with Dignity, it was that he did not -- indeed, could not -- treat others he deemed "traitors" or otherwise unworthy with Dignity, which led directly, as far as I can tell, to his monstrous and murderous cruelty.Ché Pasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-68405860229783526212011-07-26T13:27:46.435-07:002011-07-26T13:27:46.435-07:00Just checking that story out now. News to me, but ...Just checking that story out now. News to me, but then, I'm not a Norwegian!Ché Pasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-7763837180250036712011-07-26T13:18:48.649-07:002011-07-26T13:18:48.649-07:00In the US, if a mass killing like this occurred, I...In the US, if a mass killing like this occurred, I would expect to find out that the killer had been systematically stripped of dignity for a period of time until he exploded in a rage. <br /><br />Norway, on the other hand, I don't know too much about, except that they have had a somewhat violent Black Metal scene for a while according to the Exiled.vampyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14660319794133128873noreply@blogger.com