Reply #61: power [View All]

In my country - Norway - I don´t think I´ve hardly heard anybody say that this is the greatest country.
( Journalists repeat again and again that this is one of the richest countries in the world, but that is different. )

My thoughts when I hear a remark like this, go to "Deutchland uber alles" , "Britannia rule the waves", and the U.S.

Someone saying they live in the greatest country just make us have to quench a laugh over such conceit. This is probably so in all countries that never had a lot of power.

So it has obviously something to do with power. Norway has never been a powerful nation in any way, and so a thinking like this about ones own country being the greatest never came about. It comes about where there is POWER.