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The philosophy I wish to present to you today is not my own, but originates from a movement popularly called “MGTOW” (pronounced megg-tow or mig-tow). The letters stand for “men going their own way” and constitute a kind of liberation movement for men. The movement arose in the United States, where alimony still exists and where a single divorce can ruin a man. The ex-wife can quite simply make off with most of the man’s assets, including assets he possessed prior to the marriage, ably assisted by lawyers who profit from this. That American men become homeless following a divorce is fairly common. Suicide likewise.

It dawned on men that they were working themselves to death and incurring enormous debt, not for their own sake, but for the sake of their family. The philosophy proceeds from the premise that it lies in a man’s nature to manage with as little earthly goods as possible, that a man does not require a large home filled with unnecessary things, or an expensive car, that it is the women who desire this and that the man must work in order to satisfy the wife. The assertion is supported by the fact that 80 per cent of households’ purchasing power is utilised by women. In addition, the state expends enormous resources on social benefits for women from which men do not benefit. This despite the fact that men pay more in tax than women.

MGTOW encourages men not to marry or have children, but above all to cease feeding the system with their tax money. The idea is that with diminishing tax revenues, the system will eventually dry up and implode, and it will become impossible to maintain the public profligacy on things that are used to enslave the very men who sustain it.

One may agree or disagree with this. But I wish to transfer the philosophy to present-day Norway, and I would also like to include the women. We all contribute to keeping the system alive with our efforts; tax revenues that are today spent on aid without control, widespread corruption, immigration we have never requested, and climate measures we do not need. At the same time, we see that the funds are not used for the things we are told (read: lied to) that they are used for, such as education, healthcare and road construction, for all these areas are deteriorating at a rapid pace. The Norwegian school system is wretched, children do not perform, and is moreover unsafe as a result of a high proportion of children from violent cultures.

So why should we continue to run in the hamster wheel for the state? Why should we wear ourselves out in order to finance the destruction of our own welfare?

My advice is to downscale. Move to a smaller and cheaper dwelling. Cease purchasing unnecessary consumer goods. Reduce the number of holiday trips. Earn only the money you require in order to survive. Learn to value your time here on earth more highly than mammon. Do not live to work, but work to live.

Will there be fewer jobs as a result, you say? More bankruptcies? Very well, then there will also be less incentive to fill our country with imported labour. Nor is it your responsibility that bankruptcies increase and enterprises disappear. That is something Støre is already well under way with, entirely without your assistance.

If the authorities discover that the people’s production is declining, they will respond by turning up tax collection, but there is a limit to how much tax they can extract before people quite simply lay down their work and realise that they must use their time and energy in other ways in order to survive, perhaps in the form of circular economy, barter economy and private food production. Perhaps cohesion within the family and neighbourhood will once again be strengthened, because one can no longer rely upon the authorities and is compelled to look after one another. It is not long since this was common, and it may occur again.

Cease having children! You quite simply cannot afford it. The Government has made it so expensive to live and it does not appear to abate. There is no future to offer children. Therefore, refrain from intimacy until matters improve. It may sound absurd, but I do not in fact need to encourage this. People have already ceased having children. We are not reproducing ourselves. I say fine, let it continue thus. Children enslave us, because we no longer work for ourselves but for the welfare of the child. We do not dare to take risks when children are involved. We do not dare to oppose. This is what benefits the state most. The reason the authorities desire more inhabitants in the country is to keep the economy up. But for whom? So that the authorities may squander more, and become even more corrupt with our children’s money?

By allowing productivity, reproduction and thereby tax revenues to decline, they will no longer have the opportunity to do so.

And we do not need to be five million in the country. Norway was a fully fledged country with all institutions in place with only two million inhabitants. That was not very long ago, and it functioned perfectly well.

“But the wave of elderly!” people cry. If I could formulate how weary I am of hearing about the wave of elderly, even as a nurse. Yes, the wave of elderly is coming, indeed it is already here, and the authorities use it as a pretext that we at all costs require immigration. That is of course like urinating in one’s trousers to keep warm, for the immigrants themselves will one day become old, and will only exacerbate the wave of elderly they are supposedly here to save us from. Nor does it help with more “warm hands” when they are not qualified, and when the positions quite simply do not exist. Elderly care is understaffed, not because people do not exist, but because positions do not exist. The Nurses’ Association has moreover accomplished the feat of squeezing all other professional groups out of the nursing homes, and has made it a matter of prestige to employ as many nurses as possible. Well, nurses cost more, thus there are fewer hands at work, and entirely unnecessarily. Now nurses must wash floors, prepare food and perform primary care, tasks for which other occupational groups could have been utilised. But that is a digression. Back to reproduction.

Japan struggles with even lower birth rates than Norway. The Japanese Prime Minister recently stated that she would rather see the Japanese population shrink than replenish with foreigners who in turn threaten Japanese culture.

And I say, hear hear!

Perhaps we must quite simply accept poorer elderly care for a period, in order to preserve Norwegian culture and distinctiveness. Perhaps in a transitional phase we must make a greater private effort for our elderly, when the public sector fails. But wait a moment… that is where we already are, even with massive immigration.

For what are the authorities themselves doing to stem the wave of elderly? They are closing down nursing homes en masse! Or rather, they compel the municipalities to do so through financial starvation. So why on earth should we, ordinary people, accept being replaced by foreigners in order to mitigate the consequences of a wave of elderly that the authorities themselves exacerbate? Why should we pay large amounts of tax in the hope of receiving a dignified old age which the authorities will in any event deprive us of?

Are you afraid for your pension? Your future? Your children’s future? Your investments? Those things are already being dismantled. It does not help no matter how fast you run in the hamster wheel. The authorities will find a way to fleece you of your saved funds, assets and your pension. They are already well under way. You have nothing to lose by working less, earning less, and paying less tax. Our future is not secured regardless of how hard we work. The authorities want us to run faster and faster by reducing purchasing power, a little each year. We will incur stress-related ailments and illnesses, which will not be treated because the healthcare system is collapsing. It is not worth it.

We may forget the Oil Fund (Oljefondet). The Government has demonstrated that it is not there to assist Norwegians in times of crisis. In fact, Norwegians are among the countries that have lost the most purchasing power in the expensive times (from covid until today, and ongoing). The Fund is not used for tax relief or to curb price growth. It is instead used to increase public expenditure. That means the Government does not prioritise growth, but also expends enormous sums on projects that are not profitable. My advice? Let the Fund burn up, the sooner the better. In the end, prioritisation will force itself upon us. Then we can no longer squander on the same scale as now. And we will no longer be an attractive country for criminal fortune seekers.

I know it is hard to swallow. This is not the life we envisioned and planned for. But these are new times. Authorities who no longer wish us well and lead us by the nose. Yet there is something liberating in recognising the facts and, instead of complying, readjusting and rolling out a collective protest whereby we gradually deprive the system of its oxygen. It is also liberating not to own so many things that the things instead own you.

You do not need them. And we do not need the present leadership. Work for yourself and those closest to you, no more than that, and certainly not for a state that violates its part of the social contract.