“DanM, NahnCee was not talking about Denmark, rather about a certain segment of it.”

A colleague just came back from spending several months in Norway on a project. I asked her if she’d met any rich Vikings, and she chuckle-snorted and said “no”. She looked around, lowered her voice and said, “They try to act like everyone is EQUAL.” I said, “Communism?” And she said, “Yes. So of course, no one special or rich.”

Which makes me scrunch up and think because here in America, WE try to act like everyone is equal, too. Could Norway’s definition of “equal” be that Japanese concept of pounding the upstanding nail down into the board so there are no stars or giants.

While America’s definition of “equal” is everyone starting from the same place with the same benefits and the same loads and then going to where-ever intelligence, flexibility and drive can take you.

Which is why it’s so difficult to listen to a nonentity like Rune lecturing about what he has absolutely no concept … except he’s wrong from the get-go, so why bother to listen.