The media was Interest - Free in 1980´s Iceland.

We had no army to protect our homeland.

We had no big business and no big government.

The government did not operate at a federal level but concerned itself with the community.

Kids who had attention problems got put into private schools.

The other kids taught kids who misbehaved how to behave.

The kids taught each other about the problems in life and asked their parents for advise on problems they couldn´t handle.

When kids heard about mainstream media events in other countries they asked for proof positive for any claim pointing to a mainstream media event.

The event was then discussed.

Despite most of us believed in the official stories for these events , with a lot of them being manufactured or perhaps even most of them being staged , if we felt something was staged , we invested in those who listened to any alternative view.

Reports of UFO´s and extraterrestrial activity were treated with extreme skepticism.

Students who bought UFO magazines got told that it was probable they were wasting their money.

There was no silly show like Ancient Aliens on air.

If a show about someone like Danicken was put on air , material criticizing that show was usually put immediately on air.

Most films and television shows were in native Icelandic.

Adult films were meant to be seen by adults only.

Adult films were shown during the evenings and kids´stuff was shown during daytime.

Like today we had witch communities who were very secretive about what they did , and most of them were community - oriented and were into stuff like herbalism.

Belief in the Devil and in Hell was nearly non - existent.

It was believed that Hell is a condition of man´s doing toward himself.

If any of us misbehaved , we got put into a place filled with books and told to read the books , and then go back downstairs.

If someone wasn´t reading or buying books that person was laughed at and treated like an idiot.

If somebody claimed a UFO Encounter they got asked for proof.

If somebody believed in a silly alien invasion story they might have been forced to confront the consequences of denying the obvious.

It was generally agreed upon that any universe is teeming with life and that space can be crossed and so it was agreed upon that this planet has been visited.

What was not agreed upon was the mainstream media version of it.

Sports and physical activity was practiced by most students.

The class that was payed most respect to was people who spent most of their time at sea and those who worked on sea vessels.

Inactivists were hated , not loved.

Apathy was condemned , not honored.

We refused to conform and to comfort.

It was very difficult to buy and sell products , and despite that we somehow managed to keep most of our money and when we did sell products we sold them at an affordable price.

Health care was affordable.

The Constitution and Declaration of Independence were respected.

Military service was seen as an exclusively alien phenomena.

Teachers who told people what to do instead of what to think got given the VIP treatment and persecuted every minute we got away with it.

Everybody talked about the importance of being a native Icelander and keeping the environment clean.

Whole hours were spent on teaching about the importance of cleaning stuff up and everyone was talking about the Chernobyl disaster.

If somebody claimed somebody had dropped an atomic bomb , they would be questioned and if no proper answer was given no one would listen to them.

Advise was sometimes payed for and students got selected to be sent to elderly people to learn from them , sometimes in whole groups consisting of over 20 students.

Drug addiction and alcoholism were seen as being very unpopular - people expanded their consciousness with meditation.

If people said silly stories about stuff like alien invasions after meditation classes they got butt hurt real bad.

Nationalism was honored and the economical infrastructure was decentralized.

Everyone understood what it means to have one million Icelandic Kronas - it meant spend them wisely or not spend them at all.

People who begged for money but had enough of it were the most hated of all.

The only punishment teachers used who knew how to teach , was to send students upstairs for study on their own terms if they couldn´t study on other peoples´terms downstairs.

The water was mostly clean and pure.

Civilization was decentralized.