Scandinavia
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Scandinavia is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between July 07, 2021 and November 12, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Scandinavia is remarkable for having more one-person and single-family households”; “stricter than for the rest of Scandinavia”; “railway stations they hoped would take them to Germany or Scandinavia”. It most often appears alongside Germany, China, Europe.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 5
- Issue count: 5
- First seen: July 07, 2021
- Last seen: November 12, 2024
Appears In
- Lockdown Effectiveness: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
- Dictator Book Club: Orban
- Links for July 2024
- Against The Cultural Christianity Argument
- Book Review: The Rise Of Christianity
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- Germany (4 shared issues)
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- China (3 shared issues)
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- Europe (3 shared issues)
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- Middle East (3 shared issues)
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- America (2 shared issues)
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- Buddhism (2 shared issues)
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- Christianity (2 shared issues)
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- Congress (2 shared issues)
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- Eastern Europe (2 shared issues)
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- India (2 shared issues)
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- Israel (2 shared issues)
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- Italy (2 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
But it looks even worse when you compare Sweden to other Scandinavian/Nordic countries. Nobody agrees on exactly what “Scandinavian/Nordic” is, but here’s Sweden vs. Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Iceland:
Sweden had about six times the first-phase death rate of the second-worst Scandinavian/Nordic country, Denmark.
Anyway, a reasonable conclusion might be that Sweden had between 2x (if we compare it to an average European country) and 6x (if we compare it to an average Scandinavian country) the expected death rate in the first phase of the pandemic.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees traveling from the Middle East to Europe found themselves passing through Hungary. They filled up the underfunded refugee camps, they filled up city streets, they camped by the thousands outside railway stations they hoped would take them to Germany or Scandinavia. When there were no food or tents left, they rioted.
19: Claim: the Indo-European eschatology myth has left traces throughout its daughter civilizations, including the stories of Loki in Scandinavia, Tarquinius Superbus in Rome, and Bres in Ireland (Lucius Brutus = Lugh??)
Inline links: the Indo-European eschatology myth
But the Christian cultural package also fell apart and became the current post-Christian world. This wasn't just a one-time coincidence either. Protestantism gave way to modernism in Scandinavia, Germany, and the US. Catholicism gave way to modernism in Spain, Italy, and Latin America. Orthodoxy gave way to modernism in Greece, Eastern Europe, and Russia (with a slight Putinist resurrection-in-name-only which hardly seems to have produced a flourishing liberal society). Meanwhile in China, the local mix of Buddhism/Confucianism/Taoism gave way to modernism. In South East Asia, Buddhism gave way to modernism. Only 10% of Israeli Jews are ultra-Orthodox, and it would be lower if they didn't breed so fast. India is moderately Hindu but still noticeably modern. Even the Middle East is gradually becoming less Muslim.
All of this is compounded by the fact that Christianity spread equally gloriously in times and places without any of these factors. The first Christian missionary reached Scandinavia in 710 - by the twelfth century, the whole region was Christian. This is about the same timeline as Rome - but Scandinavian fertility was fine, Scandinavian women already had a decent number of rights, and there were no plagues. What about Germany? Britain? Ireland? Eastern Europe? Russia? Korea? Each of these places had their own idiosyncracies, each benefited from the knowledge that Christianity was already a great religion believed by other regional powers - but each did Christianize, as surely as Rome did. This doesn’t seem predestined. An observer in 600 AD would no more consider it inevitable that Norway would Christianize by 1100 than a modern observer would find it inevitable that Saudi Arabia will Christianize by 2500.