Johan Norberg 8 June 2013
‘All of them should have been very happy,’ Robert A. Heinlein begins his 1942 novel Beyond This Horizon. The material problem has been solved on this future earth, poverty and disease have been eradicated, work is optional. And yet parts of the citizenry are not enthusiastic. Some are bored, others are preparing a revolt. Why should that be, in such a utopian world?
A similar puzzlement has been the dominant reaction from commentators after riots broke out and cars and buildings were burned in heavily immigrant-populated suburbs of Stockholm in late May. Sweden? Since the standard interpretation is that violence is the only weapon the marginalised have against an oppressive socioeconomic system, it is more difficult to explain it when it takes place in ‘the most successful society the world has ever known’, as Polly Toynbee once called it….To Read More….
My Take – Two things. First he left out an important part of this story. It's mostly Muslims who are rioting and secondly; the prime directive of the left….Multiculturalism is essential to a happy stable culture….. is a lie and doesn’t work. But, normal people already knew that and didn’t need the events in Sweden to prove it. As for the abnormal people on the left….nothing proves anything if it disagrees with their leftist secular religion.
My Take – Two things. First he left out an important part of this story. It's mostly Muslims who are rioting and secondly; the prime directive of the left….Multiculturalism is essential to a happy stable culture….. is a lie and doesn’t work. But, normal people already knew that and didn’t need the events in Sweden to prove it. As for the abnormal people on the left….nothing proves anything if it disagrees with their leftist secular religion.
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