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A nation that has 44 Michelin stars, earns a fortune from visiting dinners, and then inventing that the suppression of the appetite is Orempic or multitalented or very stupid. Either way, I’m in Danish capital again. If the restaurants make Copenhagen my favorite city in the world of this size, then it could be an architectural mix or an uninformed bohemia. It was told for Michael Laudrup born Frederiksberg to be the greatest footballer ever, but came from a too good environment. That always seemed like a deterministic nonsense. Looking around, I wonder. . .
For politics, Denmark has another occupation. It is one of the most difficult countries that has set philosophically. It presents itself as left-liberal, but it is difficult to immigrate. (External born 12 percent of the population, to Sweden 21.) The benefit is generous, but the bosses can hire and shoot with some freedom. (“Flexibility” is an irrefutable word for this compound of market forces and paternalism.) Even in foreign affairs, Denmark is a donor and The founder of NATO, without any neutrality that Sweden held until she became insecure and unconscious.
It’s almost like – can you believe? – The country approaches each issue according to its own terms. Regular readers may be familiar with Ganesh’s vibration policy theory: that people do not elaborate on their beliefs, but take them as a kind package software Once they decide to be a team liberal or team mag. She explains why, once you find out someone’s gazing view, you can extract with depressed accuracy their view of savings, air conditioning, locking, dei and other such miscellany.
Well, those who are engaged in habit who think they are accidentally need to write. Retired judge Jonathan Sumpy is the only person who can remember in British public life who supports the EU, but not the European Convention on Human Rights. This is despite the fact that his attitude is completely consistent (and who knows, the future policy of the country). There are people of sublime intelligence and political engagement, who do not know that the two institutions are different. What is important to them is that they are both liberal “coded” and therefore good, or both malicious, depending on one’s priorities.
Who else has what we could call Denmark – that is, a heterodox – actor? Journalist Peter Hitchens is a conservative of the Church and the Royal Kingdom with irregular views of the unions, the government, and even World War II. (Just as his brother Christopher, at the height of his left, supported Margaret Thatcher through the Falklands.) Who among the fans or enemies of Jeremy Clarky knows that he has favored the “liberal united states of Europe” with “one army”, even before the shock past a month?
The tragedy is that in the tribal era such things are encountered as disgust or intentional contraristism, when it is just a sign of a person who thinks.
And “tragedy” is not too Histrional. How bad things become in the coming years, how much democratic west it survives depends on whether the conservatives who now feel that something awful is happening, can resist the impulse to hold on to the team. I have peers who came to Maga through one or the other reason – usually hate of waking up, but the lock was the second factor, such as the bourgeois boredom – which will have to make a decision enough soon. Will they approach the issues under their own conditions and therefore see obvious economic, constitutional and geopolitical reasons to get out of the train? Or will the emotional comfort of the political tribe, the structure and belonging it provides in atomized times, to take them who knows where? Like John Bolton shows that a man can be a nationalist, even Jingo, without reporting for the whole Trumpolistic faith. In addition to him, the British right seems to be late with the tongue and almost catatonic.
In the end, the pragmatism of the Danish state spacecraft from case to case is just so much model. If everyone elaborated their beliefs about each topic from the first principles, it would not end up the second. If nothing else, then the noble approach is effective. Just keep in mind that you get the right of a tribe.
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