Are the ghosts of the past supposed to determine Iceland’s future?

In the Special Investigation Report, former Morgunbladid editor Styrmir Gunnarsson says that Iceland has been a “disgusting society”.

“I have followed this for fifty years. This is a disgusting society, it is all disgusting. There are no principles, there are no ideologies, there is nothing. It is just opportunism and power struggles”.

Styrmir Gunnarsson edited Iceland’s largest newspaper in this disgusting society and called people into his audience in the power of the influence he wielded. He helped women like Jonina Benediktsdottir to try to knock down business blocks which were unfavourable to those in power. His closed off clique included ministers such as Bjorn Bjarnason and pseudo academics such as Hannes Holmsteinn Gissurarson. Along with the former, Styrmir has now formed the European Watch website where Morgunbladid’s methods are being put to their best use,  only telling half the story, the one that fits the people who support the clique in the most handsome ways. Hannes Holmsteinn has in fact recently informed his countrymen of how special interests are guarded through gifts of money to the party which is most willing to defend them.

There is a power struggle in Iceland. The guardians of special interests who lost their powers because they built their houses on sand are now fighting fair and foul to protect their gold from the sea and regain the power. No costs are spared, the methods they use are telling half-told tales through the European Watch, publish books on the mad siege theory, spew venom and spite towards honest men like economist Thorvaldur Gylfason who disagrees with them, and fund charities like Morgunbladid and AMX.is and dress them up like real media.

Libertarian government employees on pension do not have to worry about the future rather than a book-salesman in Selfoss or a young farmer with a skewed vision of the world, as long as the disgusting society lives on. They conquered, controlled and divided the disgusting society between them and their friends. Unlike former president Vigdis Finnbogadottir who signed the EEA agreement taking the interests of the future generation before her own, the chosen ones from the disgusting society could care less about the future generations of Icelanders. Whether they are cast aside in the world community or live by hedge fund risks  in their household finances, they don’t care as long as the disgusting spoils are theirs.

The rest of us have to ask ourselves is to what degree are the disgusting ghosts of the past supposed to determine Iceland’s future?

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