Reykjavík Grapevine - 20.10.2017, Page 56

L IF E , T R AV EL & EN T ER TA INMEN T IN ICEL A ND
Issue 19 × 2017
Oct 20 – Nov 9
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LAST WORDS
The End
Has No End
Words: Halldór Armand Ásgeirsson
It’s election time in Iceland, the purest, most
uncorrupted and book-loving place on planet
Earth.
Earlier this week, a bank was awarded a
court injunction against the newspaper Stun-
din. The newspaper had been writing thorough
reports, in cooperation with The Guardian and
Reykjavik Media, on all kinds of shady financial
activity undertaken by our Prime Minister and
his family when the banking system was col-
lapsing in 2008.
In short, they can’t do it anymore. No more
writing on this matter. Nothing to see here.
Back to basics for the Icelandic media. Back
to writing about celebrities with tough child-
hood memories, the English Premier League
and what liberals on Twitter are saying about
Trump and Narcos.
It’s Falson, baby, my basket of secrets, my
island of dreams, my kingdom of wealth. A
name that tells you nothing but contains every-
thing. Come home with me tonight, yes, you,
and I might make you an account holder by the
break of dawn. You belong offshore with me,
where there’s no time, no death, no space, and
no taxes. Yes, yes, yes. My buddies in the the
banking system, my homies in parliament, mis
amigos at the Financial Supervisory Authority.
They’ll all be there, talking Nietzche, jazz, sex
and investment opportunities in Tripoli, Hugh
Hefner style, and dad’s getting pizza. I keep no
secrets from a person that can’t speak.
Like The Strokes said: The End Has No End.
Our crisis, our political and philosophical cri-
sis, began in 2006 and we’re still there, no solu-
tion in sight, as we keep on lying to ourselves
and others that everything is perfectly fine.
What was it that Stundin was about to
tell us? The thing is, it really doesn’t matter.
There’s nothing in there that we don’t already
know, that we haven’t seen before.
Why do they do it? Why are we - year after
year - getting so used to the most powerful
people in the country being involved in big
financial scandals? I suspect that the reason
is the same as why we will most definitely
end up tolerating this thing and not changing
anything. There’s no moral foundation here
that unites us, no sense of community. We are
atheists who believe in the welfare state. Take
away our problems and you can do what you
like, we’ll pay what you want, yes, please hide
the old people and drug the children so we can
all watch the Liverpool game in peace.
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