Having had one of my best conference experiences ever this year in the company of many good Norwegians, this weeks news saddened me and it must have come as a hell of a shock to the country as a whole, not just those involved. Their horror is difficult to imagine.
I really don’t have adequate words, frankly.
At the same time, it inspired me to hear …
My heart goes out to those involved and I look forward to going back to Norway next year …
It is absolutely chilling. The closer tragedy is to home, the more potent it strikes and no society is more similar to my own Swedish that the Norwegian.
I just find it so disheartening that humans can sink so low. I will just think of the murderer as some kind of disease, a cancer of society which, sadly, we did not catch in time.
As you know, Doug, I have an odd way of (not) perceiving the world. However, the recent situation in Norway both deeply bothers me – and deeply heartenes me. It is now a few days after the event and two things become more clear. This man was wrong, broken. Norway as a society is right. Occasionally such terrible things will happen. Hopefully, some societies will continue to respond in a way which says “yes, but our society is much more important than this”.