Four Nordic countries are among the 20 countries with the highest human development index (HDI) of the planet. Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, in the extreme north of Europe, were regarded with a mixture of envy and admiration. This seemed harmonious whole, the rest of the world, civilization seemed to be one step ahead. But recent years have brought the rise of the extreme right.
This foreign body of ideas, nurtured by the economic elites and social conservative, who understand they are jealous of their rights and imprisoned in a radical ideology and practice, he returned to torment. Until the last 22 days, were the sites of the right parties, some published in the periphery of the continent and targeted to youth, and even then rejoin the game of political disputes.
But that Friday, 22th July, after Anders Behring Breivik install explosives in government offices and shooting people distracted, innocent and unarmed, they were faced with the horror, found in 77 bodies. The most sad form to be presented to mass terrorism. The evils that European neighbors have faced.
Worse, the waking nightmare, Norwegian and other Scandinavian countries saw the superpowers offer intelligence agents, weapons and part of their press indicate the Islamists as enemies. The latter form was the most - often invisible - cruel to contribute to the chaos lived in the western world.
Anyone who has read the New York Times believed that the threat came from "radical Islam", not realizing he was being gestated among young people succeed, graduates, employees, and some of them vulnerable to the discourse of right. Not with the immigrants, looking for work and survival.
Besides the deaths, the impact was the realization that the malaise of civilization, as Freud said, not structure is legitimate causes, but in opposition, dissatisfaction and sociopathy. The horror comes from young people, Christians and countrymen, even for generations created with the blessings of the state of welfare resent that.
The citizens Nordic theme is which reasons a son of a diplomat, who lived away from his father, studied at elite school and had middle-class life was surrounded by the discourse of the extreme right and committed the most heinous crime in your country, since the Second War? Perhaps for the same reasons that gave rise this conflict.
Scandinavia is facing an identity crisis caused by the intensive discussion about the "immigration problem," says the writer Roman Schatz, based in Helsinki, Finland. Author of several books on Finnish society and novels as Telewischn, a parody of reality TV shows, Schatz, 51, says that xenophobia began to show his face for about 15 years.
But on Breivik, author of the attacks in Oslo, says that this is a different phenomenon: a lonely young man in a society where the intercom is reduced, and people have few material concerns, but they are empty of content. The type of breeding ground for extreme right. And probably resentful the massive adoption of young people to the Labour Party.
Lars Gule, 55, Norwegian philosopher, draws attention to the need for a broader discussion on the polarization of views on the transformations that country and its neighbors have in recent decades. "We were never a perfect society, contrary to what the world has become accustomed to think," says former leftist militant. No cause for alarm, says the attack does not mean the failure of the model of Nordic social democracy.
He was among the 150,000 Norwegians who took to the streets of Norway in the vigil that marked the repudiation demonstrations to the attacks, on Monday after the massacre. Then returned to the computer screen for new virtual conversations chat in extreme right forums on the Internet. An activity in which he has been engaged for years. The Breivik’s right party lost votes.
The manifestation of the bishop Helga Byfuglien played a key role. Especially because it is expressed through the most pain. Even brutalized, people came to his senses. But the reasons for the extreme right sociopathy still require further debate. And the clash of ideas can not be limited to the traditional ways, they know.
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