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Re:Law of Jante by pdog on Saturday September 30, 2017 @12:29PM (#15373615)
You can condense the ten rules down to one:

1. You're not to think.

Re:Law of Jante by chc on Saturday September 30, 2017 @12:35PM (#15373641)
I think "Be humble" would be a better one-line version. They're basically about not believing oneself superior to others.
Re:Law of Jante by asdfasfhretwt on Saturday September 30, 2017 @01:51PM (#15374059)
Not really. Notice the stuff about you not being better than us or having anything to teach us. Janteloven has the flip side that everyone thinks that they have nothing to learn.
Re:Law of Jante by spectaclepiece on Saturday September 30, 2017 @02:15PM (#15374184)
More like "Be humble or we will exclude you from society".
Re:Law of Jante by vim_wannabe on Saturday September 30, 2017 @01:53PM (#15374075)
Or maybe: you are not to give reasons (display of wealth or whatever) for other people to think of you as someone who would feel superior to others.
Re:Law of Jante by asdfgadsfgasfdg on Saturday September 30, 2017 @01:54PM (#15374082)
I don't know if you live/have lived in Scandinavia but this is depressingly accurate.
Re:Law of Jante by spectaclepiece on Saturday September 30, 2017 @02:17PM (#15374198)
Not true, you can think, as long as you think like everybody else.
Re:Law of Jante by gjjrfcbugxbhf on Saturday September 30, 2017 @02:30PM (#15374280)
Which is not thinking for yourself.