cptmarginal » Thu Sep 03, 2015 5:30 am wrote:Henrik 1.0 seemed a chilled-out affable (younger) George Noury with Swedish meatballs
You hit the nail on the head; the podcast was fun to listen to before precisely because it was explicitly open-minded. Before the introduction was changed (to add that little bit about "traditional values" or whatever euphemism he uses for racism) it used to be one of my favorite parts about the show. Setting the stage for questioning orthodoxy, and being easygoing and intelligent about it. The show has always had questionable guests, but that was sort of the whole point: talking about excluded viewpoints and controversial history.
I don't think that there is any problem with interviewing people about any particular topic, even something as alarming as reconsidering the historical image of Nazi Germany- but a white, right-wing perspective was definitely not supposed to be the whole focus of the show. And
by making it the focus, it destroys the integrity of what he is doing and makes it into insufferably boring listening in the process.
(My bolden)
Exactly my thoughts (and TBH with a touch of sadness)
I was left wondering what physical world event might possibly have happened to change him?
I remember seeing a documentary about an isolated Bosnian village (Muslims and Croats) where a little like the Shire in LOTR the people were united and loving to each other and often inter-married, but the red forest fire of war gradually moved closer and closer. Then it arrived with the arrival of Croat refugees - relatives of the people there; the women had been raped by Bosnian Muslim soldiers and there husbands shot. The village culture changed in a couple of days (all this filmed by the Canadian anthropologist staying there). It became riven down ethnic fault-lines.
I listened to the introduction to the Towson one - and I was honestly like DAFUQ?!
The whole vibe was of a person who has a VIEW on how things are and that they were going to BROADCAST THAT VIEW. When I listened to Red Ice before, it was precisely because Henrik did NOT have an axe to grind
Comparing him then with Kerry Cassidy, she, at that time
a) talked more than the interviewee
b) talked over the interviewee
c) swallowed any bullshit provided by the interviewee
d) ignored and feedback provided by the community
e) did not challenge the interviewee
Henrik 1.0 listened, created space, stated what he disagreed with, appreciated his audience AND respectfully challenged his guests.
Going back to the show I mentioned, this is pretty much 'Radio Stormfront'. His show now has an AGENDA, which it is communicating through this filter. It was a HUGE turn-off, like listening to someone reading prepared statements instead of creating Dialogue. I think it is also very much playing into hands of the whole neo-Liberal / Sorosian / globalist approach. Kind of like seeing a fire but not questioning one's intense reaction to just do something, to turn the water jets on it, when it might be the type of fire that needs foam, not water...
I was ultimately reminded of a saying from the Landmark Forum "What you resist, Persists"
Henrik now seems to have a very binary worldview.
Cowboys and Archons.