I’m used to see impressive and progressive news about Finland. I know it’s easy to fawn over a place I haven’t been to, but it seems to have its “head screwed on” in terms of governance and quality of life.
I know I would have it worse in a lot of other places, but also, quite a few of the problems I have, I wouldn’t have had, so I wouldn’t have necessarily had it worse. Depends.
I think this whole “happiest country in the world” shit exemplifies some of what I mean. The study was about contentedness. So Finland is a place in which people say they are the least not-miserable. Finnish culture has this sort of “don’t complain” thing in it. I don’t know if it was a common saying in other places, but when I would hurt myself as a kid, the most common phrase to hear was “it can’t hurt if it’s not bleeding”.
Finland has the most complaints about police abuse in the Nordics. More than all the other Nordics complained, about 40million vs like 5. But Finns have a very hard time believing the police actually behave poorly and abuse their power. I have personal experience on this. https://www.hs.fi/suomi/art-2000009654524.html Quite a lot actually.
I’m happy that I can be rather sure that I don’t have to rob or fight people, as we do have social security, but the bureaucracy around it is ridiculous, needless, expensive, slow, fucked, just absolute garbage.
Essentially the only problems we have is the ones we’ve created ourself, is my point. But then most Finns don’t want to recognise those issues. Which is one of the main issues.
Kiitos, that was insightful. I’ve heard of the “don’t complain” trait before. I think it can lead to painful repression in us as people.
Essentially the only problems we have is the ones we’ve created ourself, is my point. But then most Finns don’t want to recognise those issues. Which **is** one of the main issues.
I’m used to see impressive and progressive news about Finland. I know it’s easy to fawn over a place I haven’t been to, but it seems to have its “head screwed on” in terms of governance and quality of life.
Well, yes and no.
I know I would have it worse in a lot of other places, but also, quite a few of the problems I have, I wouldn’t have had, so I wouldn’t have necessarily had it worse. Depends.
I think this whole “happiest country in the world” shit exemplifies some of what I mean. The study was about contentedness. So Finland is a place in which people say they are the least not-miserable. Finnish culture has this sort of “don’t complain” thing in it. I don’t know if it was a common saying in other places, but when I would hurt myself as a kid, the most common phrase to hear was “it can’t hurt if it’s not bleeding”.
Finland has the most complaints about police abuse in the Nordics. More than all the other Nordics complained, about 40million vs like 5. But Finns have a very hard time believing the police actually behave poorly and abuse their power. I have personal experience on this. https://www.hs.fi/suomi/art-2000009654524.html Quite a lot actually.
I’m happy that I can be rather sure that I don’t have to rob or fight people, as we do have social security, but the bureaucracy around it is ridiculous, needless, expensive, slow, fucked, just absolute garbage.
Essentially the only problems we have is the ones we’ve created ourself, is my point. But then most Finns don’t want to recognise those issues. Which is one of the main issues.
Kiitos, that was insightful. I’ve heard of the “don’t complain” trait before. I think it can lead to painful repression in us as people.
That does sound like an impossible situation.
Well, you know, we’re not the first to have that problem, and I don’t think the last.