This article was written when numerous members of the American porn-industry were scheduled to hold a convention in my country, Iceland. It was somehow decided that this convention should not be held here and the reasons were just plain stupid. I put myself in a "you must be wrong, because I'm right," social-judgmenting standpoint and this was my article on the matter:
The modern hypocrisy of the Icelandic psyche.
With every year that passes it becomes more clear to me that the mentality of the Icelandic populace is becoming more and more "Americanized" and laden with hypocrisy and stupidity. It appears that we feel the need of adopting the oh-so great "do stupid things now, never ask questions" mindset. It's as if we're becoming so consumed of ourselves that it's border-lining the common sense one would like us to have. Analyzing the events of, say, the last two years or so, not only are the decisions of our government getting further away from what the people actually want, but also the people themselves are growing more self-centered and stupid with each passing day. This creates a huge gap between those who have the power and those who don't, both parties are only thinking of their own interests and curse the other for not thinking about their ego and its needs.
Let's get some grounds for those statements I've thrown at you now, to increase the built up frustration towards everything that isn't right.
There's a car crash here in Iceland and the police arrives and barricades the road, and what happens? People who got delayed by this tragic accident actually phoned up our emergency hot-line (112) to complain angrily about the delay they were experiencing and shouting the same at the police officers on duty at the crash site, apparently not considering the delay of the people who were actually in the accident, oh no, it's themselves they're worried about. It's so frustrating not being able to get to work or back home for dinner, right? I bet those injured were back home by dinner to enjoy a quiet evening with their families, one died in that accident.
People amaze me, that's for sure. We can talk about the great case of Breidavik, once a youth correction facility, that apparently has some dark past, but is now run as a well situated guest-house. When the media was covering the whole issue some of our stupid ones got the urge to call the guest house, which is in no way connected to the correction facility except the for the location, and showing great disrespect and even yelling at the owners by phone for what had happened there in the past. What is it that justifies that kind of stupidity? Where are we heading? What is going on? Did people really think that this facility was still being used as a corrupted correction facility, and the same owners were there since 40 years earlier and deserved a speech from you, the stupid one?
Now that I've shown you how our populace is growing more stupid in the past years, let's review the case of the sex-terrorists that were planning to come here.
Now as many of you know, the Snowgathering, the name of the convention, was to be held here in Iceland at the Radison SAS Hotel SAGA. Everything was dandy and fine when the decision was made, they were booked at the hotel and little or no questions were asked, just as it should be. However, it quickly became apparent what the convention was standing for, the sex industry. From then on all hell broke loose in the media. The local institution that helps victims of rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence, Stigamot, sent a letter to all those they considered important enough to see to that the oppression-laden spokesmen of that industry would not be allowed here. Soon after that everything went haywire, the mayor of Reykjavik stepped in and underlined his non-existent insight, the parliament took the case on their hands and tried to get to a decision, which they never succeed in anyhow, and failed. Then it became clear, these guests of ours were not welcome here and should be deported if they were to step onto Icelandic soil.
Now let's begin the dissection of the hypocrisy I mentioned at the beginning of this rant.
The leading argument for this decision was because the production and distribution of pornography is mostly illegal in Iceland, however, it is not illegal where these individuals live that were scheduled to attend the Snowgathering. So I conclude that we were just assuming that they were going to work on their vacation Iceland, therefore breaking our laws? Were they planning to have sex in Iceland? Is that a crime now?
In Amsterdam it is legal to smoke weed, that's not in Iceland as you should perhaps know. Let's say people who smoke weed decide to visit Iceland, would they be deported as well? Would they not be allowed to come here because we can only assume that they would smoke weed here in Iceland to? Are we really that shallow that we decide what people are likely to do when they visit us from their own country? It was clearly stated that the guests at the Snowgathering were to follow national law and they agreed to abide by them, but how could we then bypass that agreement and think they would rather break the rules than follow them? I didn't know the government had the power to predict the behavior of people of other nationalities as they've never seen them before.
Another major argument to the decision was that "we do not allow prostitution nor do we allow child-pornography". Now that's an understandable stance. However, I have no idea how we started to connect this event to either of those subjects. It's as if the femi-nazis stepped in here and made the statement about that particular connection and we blindly followed, just as we saw our government officials do it.
Prostitution? Child-pornography? The opportunity of buying children on their website? This is all what our officials were claiming in the media and that they could not allow them to come here. It's pretty obvious that I wouldn't stand for that either though, but where can this be found on their site? I've been on their website, and nowhere can I see a business proposal to buy children, nor do I see the same for adults, therefore we can safely assume that these are words pulled out of one's ass. It wouldn't surprise me if it was from the highly controversial feminist-party leadership here. You make an irrelevant statement that everybody agrees to and use it as the sharp edge of your agenda without ever actually explaining anything about it, classic - right?
To make one more point, Radison SAS hotel SAGA follows the common standards of their hotel chain, they offer pay-per-view pornography in their hotel rooms. So in fact, they support the distribution and selling of pornography. However, they do not allow the producers of the same medium to stay at their hotel in the intent of having fun in Iceland. This is the epitome of all that's considered hypocrisy, good job Iceland!
Legal prosecution is inevitable in this case as we were discriminating a class of people that live honest lives in their own country. But working at something that we consider is illegal must mean that they simply can't follow the simple rules while staying in Iceland, and that's essentially "Don't work on your vacation". It sure takes extraordinary to enforce that.
Hope this was a fun read.
Regards,
Molested
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