The changes in our World have been so fast and disruptive. Who had the time to digest them? Let me still try to give some explanation why we ended up where we are. Everything I am – male, white, over-aged, etc. – is negatively defined. Not only by the indoctrinated masses, but by the Public Administration, indeed by the State we belong to as citizens. How is that even possible? Let´s seek the answers from the French philosoph Alexis de Tocqueville:

Tocqueville's idea is that the "equality" that he sees historically emerging (and that he imagines as inevitable) actually threatens to make everyone equally powerless. The State wipes out the civil society, at least its dissidents and sovereigns, because only those who can threaten the centralized power of the State are the people that it does not control. As an individual, you are rendered harmless, paradoxically by submitting to the rights the State "gives" you. You have become a serf, by letting the "majority" decide what is right and wrong, true and false. What kind of individuals do we get, those who submit to a power apparatus, formal and materialized, whose only legitimacy is justified by "public opinion"? Tocqueville takes the idea even further and points to the mechanism that ultimately threatens to undermine the entire social structure:

"It is, in fact, difficult to imagine how people who have completely given up the habit of governing themselves could succeed in the task of appointing the most suitable people to govern society. And one must not imagine that a free-spirited, energetic and wise government can ever emerge from the votes of people of servant souls.”

When everything is politicized, which means the State interfere at all levels in people's lives, man becomes as hollow and flat as a political rhetoric or a statecontrolled news broadcast. In the politicized, in the centralized State power's politicized network of equally "good" and empty words, we get a person who is not rooted in anything real. And the mass media seems made for such people, as does the politic in itself. What you lack in yourself, you are encouraged to look after outside yourself, and the emptier and more independent the self has become, the greater the need for an audience and social confirmation. A conclusion quite easy to draw is that the more politicized a person turns, the bigger political idiot he becomes. What is the use of all the possible and impossible human rights if the centralized power systematically violates the most fundamental "right", namely that as a human being and individual to see ones will, integrity and dignity respected? What is an "equality" and "democracy" worth, which makes everything and everyone a means for one or another political or economic purpose?

Every day I see parents staring into their mobile phones while the children tug at their shirts or stand by apathetically and say nothing. What happened to human maturity? And with the natural authority? Everything human stands and falls with self-esteem. With one's own pride, the prerequisite of which is freedom and personal responsibility. Without such, man shrinks, becomes small, a human worm crawling in the dung. Paradoxically, as boundless as easily offended. And the children? At the same time convulsively cherished and abandoned by those close to them. They grow up without anything solid to fall back on.

Free interpretation from an article by Einar Askestad