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Living in the country that invented riots and demonstrations on a daily basis, I am so accustomed to it that it doesn't strike me as something unusual..
While other people check the weather forecast, everyday before I leave for work I check the interent to see the demonstration schedule (no joke ), the strike schedule and try to predict when and where the riots will start on that given day, which roads will be blocked and which transportation means will be out of service so that I take a detour or that I go somewhere nearby and wait until the crap is over..
But I live in Greece, modern capital of corruption and incompetence, so I don't find it odd because I know what is fundamentally wrong with this place...
It strikes me as very unusual, however, to see that sort of thing happening in Iceland, which was until a few months ago 'the place to be', the higher living standards and all that...
I guess this is bound to happen worldwide as capitalism is collapsing (or at least, undergoing major crisis) and maybe we shall benefit out of it...shall we learn a lesson and become self sufficient and less addicted to money and material comfort?
I already read that Polish immigrants are fleeing en masse away from Iceland and the countryside shall be left without working hands... How'bout Icelanders abandon commodity fetishism and fancy jobs and resume the sort of work that their ancestors have been doing for ages..?
Think about it, if an economic disaster leads us to take matters into our own hands and ensure our survival the traditional way, free from the world bank and the stock market, we would need less to none at all immigrants, and less foreign aid, hence less foreign pressure.
Isn't that what we all want?
I also want to ask the dude with the scary back , what about corruption in Iceland?
See, here, corruption is synonymous with all forms of social life, and politicians shamelessly rob public funds, one scandal pops after the other, simply because the whole nation has learned to live on small scale corruption so they don't mind the large scale corruption as long as they can also survive on small scale corruption themselves....
But I have difficulty visualizing the Northerners as a corrupted people. So I wonder in what ways corruption is manifested in the Icelanding government.
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