Here again is what Bearcy, the pantheist, says about the Jantelov and its internalization. The religious terminology he uses, I would not, but the text is worth thinking about. These are the sentences from it which jump out at me today:
According to my narrow point of view, the Law of Jante is the main foundation to all evil in this world. Only when you follow the Law of Jante, do you attain the ability to despise yourself.
And only when you despise yourself, do you feel guilt because you—in your ignorance—allow yourself to despise . . . the spiritual part of everything and everyone, including your eternal soul, because It keeps creating. [Yet] it is creation who is you.
[W]hen you feel guilt because you despise the creator of the universe, you allow yourself to get intimidated into feeling fear of punishment—even if you do not worship the idol of that particular religion. (Because religions are all the same; they are the Antichrist. . . . [T]hey are substitutes for the sacred free will of everyone and everything in existence. [They and their laws] are . . . not real; stop believing [them].)
Only when you let yourself get intimidated into feeling anxiety, you attain the ability to quit reasoning [in a manner that is] adequately rational. . . .
Then you lock yourself inside a vicious circle that no one else but you can bring yourself out of. [N. Ed.: what I do in these instances, is attack myself in some manner, most specifically by trying to talk myself back into believing the Jantelov.]
The easiest way of getting out of your vicious circle, is to consciously defy the Law of Jante in all you say and do. Then you tear yourself apart from all feelings of guilt and shame, so that you feel guiltless, proud and safe. Only then [do] you feel as the one you are: . . . a responsible co-creator of this world. . . .
Cease following the self-destructive Law of Jante!
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Dear Zero,
(Although I am married, I feel we are intimates now, so I’ll drop the title of professor)
To the Jante Law add black and you’ve described the conditions in the Caribbean.
What you call re-education, we call the decolonization of the mind, heart, and body. It’s an ongoing process and unless one is brave enough to stand up to the “Sheriff,” in whatever form he takes, then the control continues.
I wish you well in your journey, comrade.
Word, Geoffrey, and thank you, and it’s true!
Although: what I call re-education is actually the opposite of decolonization: I refer to a form of colonization (I didn’t start out very colonized, or at least I don’t think so, but I sure did get ‘colonized’ later on!). So now I am trying to re-re-educate, shoot the sheriff, and decolonize my mind.
One of my methodologies in this, actually, is to read your blog and Bess’, you both seem to be very good at decolonization and resisting the sheriff … interestingly and tellingly, without tangling with him too much, so that you don’t end up re-engaged. It is instructive, and inspiring.
(Specifically this morning, I am writing my annual activity report, and looking at how much I really got done as opposed as how much I wanted to do. It would have been more FUN and more STRENGTHENING to do more of the things I planned. I feel GUILTY that I did not do that, which converts the things I had planned and did not get to do, into BURDENS and DUTIES … whereas really, they were forms of FUN. I want to keep that in mind: they were and still are actually sources of STRENGTH, not weights to drag one down.)
thanks for this education…your words always have a ring of truth to them — this self-soul searching that you do
thanks for sharing this part of your process
I’m glad you don’t think it’s too much of what they call navel-gazing… It’s what helps me stay cool… 🙂 –Z
Interesting. I thought of my own…Laws …Barbielovens
1. You shall know that I will act as though I am special because I am.
2. You shall know that I honor and expect you to treat as sacred every living thing including the breath you breathe.
3. You shall give with no expectation of reward.
4. You shall seek truth for it will set you free.
5. You shall endeavor to make every space you occupy better than the way you found it.
6. You shall practice the art of letting go.
7. You shall not judge me, yourself or others.
8. You shall empty your mind of yesterday.
9. You shall be original.
10. You shall love.
I like them! And love the title. –Z