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“Consensus culture” just helped me understand something about Finland that I couldn’t quite put to words yet. For a supposedly politically forward thinking country, I have found a surprising lack of imagination and vision from people when you learn about their politics. I guess it’s because it would break an illusion of consensus that makes people feel like they are on the good side.
In a way, I prefer the US where people are more direct about their ignorance, maybe even taking it as a virtue, rather than how Finns seem to pretend to be woke when they aren’t
Yeah. It's a complicated result of very particular ruling ideology being drilled into the population over a few centuries. I should do an effort post about it. There are colonial features to it for sure.
It is why there are no meaninful protest, everything is depolitized, everyone is "equal" in the worst possible way. I need to write about it as the reasons for it are pretty interesting, depressing and eye-opening.
I would be very interested to read that if you where to write such a post. I live in a country that’s somewhat in between the US and Finland where liberal politics is depoliticised but due to cultural exchanges with the US and other colonized states we do have small protest subcultures