Iceland has an alcoholic psyche.
The shared Icelandic alcoholism presents itself in co-dependence, denial and massive self-delusion.
The self-delusion lead us to think that we had it all figured out, that we could drink more than everyone before us in history without suffering the hangovers. Co-dependence tied us strongly together in masking the problems, shushing the voices that told us not to drink and close our eyes in the belief that everything would work out alright if we just prayed it would.
Denial is now preventing us from taking the next steps, to seek help to stop doing things the way we have been doing them.
This weekend one alcoholic accuses another of having problems. In an interview with DV Johannes Jonsson who founded Bonus with his son Jon Asgeir and wathed it grow into Baugur Group, says that David Oddson is a sick man. David on the other hand has been repeating his mantra that Johannes and the evil businessmen are to blame for the collapse.
One good thing about their drunken escapades of their last twenty years is that finally, people have stopped listening.
And now they are just two old farts arguing.
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