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Majority, is question.

During a visit to Denmark I chanced upon a wizened old history Professor where we discussed the Viking contribution to civilization. The concept of civilization being east or west because that's where they traveled - across the north-sea westwards or along rivers eastwards.



Expressing my interest in the western contribution he related two "stories" underpinning the Viking way. The first was how Vikings taught British islanders how to do administration to the point where Vikings actually ran the Monarchy of England and Scandinavia simultaneously. That begins to explain the Monarchical relationships in current Europe as well as military logistic tactics still evident in British defense forces.



The second story was about a group of Vikings (probably consolidated under one Chieftain of sorts) who got permission to break away from Danish soil to venture to Gaul (now France). At the time Romans were in charge and the "Chieftainship" extended a courtesy to the local Roman Commander by presenting themselves and declaring their Bona Fide intent on staying in a defined area. The Roman Commander accepted their proposal and allowed them to return to their new home, but at the same time instructed his army to kill the lot. So when the Vikings got to their defined area, the army was waiting for them. This breach of a "contract" infuriated the Vikings - and as the Professor described - invoked a deep moral anger in them - to such an extent, that they fought back with such veracity and rage, so as to destroy the attackers. Clearly the question is where this rage emanates from.



Vikings were traders, traveling long distances and "contracts" were (very) important to them, causing lots of effort (vested interest) that would go lost during a breach of trust. The truth was therefore important, not only to maintain relationships, but indeed to survive nature - to exist. Another tenet of Viking society was their understanding of Valhalla, a place where Gods roamed and warriors, intent on defending their honor and trust, were revered. The Gods clearly never approved of cowards, but that never impeded their ability to be exceptional. Not only surviving nature, not only in balance with their spirituality, not only honest and truthful, not only willing to defend their values, but to do it with such rage against a MAJORITY, as befitting the true concept of exceptionalism.



A majority can never be exceptional because it would include cowards and delinquents, or as my step-son would say - players. A minority on the other hand can evict the underminer, mala fide hanger-on detractors of society. But in a minority, the detractors and cowards would normally be an even smaller minority. So what the Vikings have taught us was how to manage this (small) minority with rules and values while they also taught us how to manage an "other" majority.



The problem with American exceptionalism is that the concept have been distorted to benefit cowards, self-interested people hiding their true intention. This resulted in them (a little majority) addressing (small) minorities in a distorted way - almost admitting that those (small) minorities are like that because of their own little "majority". They have clearly missed the essential picture that the majority are actually "others" and so have over the ages forgotten the entire concept of majority as well as the "rules" governing such a majority. This can be illustrated with a "majority" of Africans streaming across European borders and a Spanish "majority" streaming across American borders.



Clearly we need to re-discover the concept of a majority and our rage in that picture. Once a senior lecturer asked me what the name of my "book" would be, and I said "Rage". His advice then was to make sure that all those factors causing that rage to bubble be identified and not to just focus on one factor/cause. In this effort, a large group of anger generating conditions relates to the fact that we do not control our majority. This creates an anger towards myself which always requires priority.



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