I just find your perspective quite provocative. I was once a member of AUF. That is the youth organization of the Norwegian labour party. We have a long tradition for involving young people in politics in Norway. Every year the leader of the labour party, often the prime minister, comes to the island of Utøya to talk to the young generation and listen to their concerns. And the labour party cares about their youth party and what it says. This is where they get their future politicians from. This applies to most Norwegian parties.

I was once at Utøya summer camp when I was 19. It was full of young people with idealism who wanted to make the world a better place. Who wanted to stand up for the downtrodden and forgotten. They were not their to make money, create division or hate. This characterization of politics you make was so profoundly far away from the reality I saw.

Fast forward to 2011 and right-terrorist Anders Behring Breivik ran around Utøya executing teenagers. Around 80 dead. Hundreds more injured. A slaughter house.

Why did they die? Because they dared care about politics. Before that Breivik detonated a bomb downtown Oslo where I live. We are still building in Oslo to restore what he destroyed.

So I do not like seeing people crap on others who sacrificed their life for politics. They did that to improve the lives of fellow citizens. Nobody gets rich on politics in Norway. This is something people do out of passion.

My brother has spent years in politics next to a full job. It never made him any money. He does it because he cares. With your scathing characterization of people doing politics you shit all over a lot of people.

I think I have every right to disparage you as a nihilist. Just because you believe in nothing doesn’t mean the rest of us cannot believe in working for a better world. There is no way outside of politics to do that. A better world requires new laws, regulations, initiatives and ambitions.