This has been a very rough year for Iceland, and it’s not likely to get better anytime soon. The public’s anger continues to grow, and it would not be surprising if this winter sees a repeat of last winter’s uprising. One would hope that we retained a few lessons from this painful debacle, but unfortunately and inexplicably, Icelanders seem hell-bent on self-destruction – again.
According to recent polls, a third of voters support the Independence Party, the architects and enforcers of the corrupt policies that devastated the country. Icelanders’ story continues to be that of Bjartur of Summerhouse, the protagonist of Nobel prize author Halldór Laxness’ Independent People, “the story of a man who sowed his enemy’s field all his life, day and night.”
This has been a very rough year for Iceland, and it’s not likely to get better anytime soon. The public’s anger continues to grow, and it would not be surprising if this winter sees a repeat of last winter’s uprising. One would hope that we retained a few lessons from this painful debacle, but unfortunately and inexplicably, Icelanders seem hell-bent on self-destruction – again.
According to recent polls, a third of voters support the Independence Party, the architects and enforcers of the corrupt policies that devastated the country. Icelanders’ story continues to be that of Bjartur of Summerhouse, the protagonist of Nobel prize author Halldór Laxness’ Independent People, “the story of a man who sowed his enemy’s field all his life, day and night.”
Iris Erlingsdottir at the Huffington Post
Related posts:
- Financial Times: Iceland After A Year Of Financial Crisis
- Eric Weiner: Why Iceland is STILL happy (Video)
- Iceland Takes Two Steps To The Left
- Ireland May Follow Iceland
- Libertarian Experiment In Iceland Fails
September 30th, 2009 → 9:25 am @ Dadi
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