Avainsana: democracy
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A happy world would be Moominvalley – utopias are not impossible
According to psychological studies, 30-40% of people are mean and about 20-30% are very empathetic, tolerant and kind. The rest are in between. According to studies, this follows an almost normal distribution, but there are slightly more mean people than truly empathetic people. According to psychologists, every person is born good and innocent. Evil is…
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Inclusion – the idea of including and keeping everyone involved
Inclusion means that everyone is involved, there is diversity among people, and that there can be no division into “normal” and “abnormal” people. Everyone is different and equal. The UN Salamanca Declaration of 1994 set inclusion as a goal in all education. Inclusion does not only apply to education, but is a much broader concept…
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MAGA poison threatens a world based on cooperation, solidarity and rules
The Global North or the so-called The West has long led the world. Initially, this leadership was a colonialist and capitalist extractivism that sought to control natural resources and economic hegemony. The Second World War is a milestone and a watershed, after which the world sought to build international cooperation and a rule-based world order.…
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Fascist and angry 612 procession disrupts normal people’s Independence Day celebrations
Today, the Independence Day of the Republic of Finland, December 6th, people celebrate, often watch the traditional celebrations in President’s Castle, eat Christmas cakes and drink glögi and maybe a little wine. On Independence Day, we remember our republic that has lasted over 100 years and the important work of past generations for peace, freedom,…
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Interpersonal logistics – understanding, systems thinking and interdisciplinarity
A large proportion of disputes between people are caused by misunderstandings and lack of knowledge. People communicate in many different ways and use very different languages. Often the same words are given very different meanings. For example, a friend of mine, when I talked about the importance of bureaucracy, said that he thought of bureaucracy…
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An activist is not a criminal – Arctic peatlands are at danger and telling that to the public is the right thing to do
Wednesday 25.9. a Swedish environmental activist group Återställ Våtmarker, together with Elokapina/Extinction Rebellion Finland, smeared the columns of the Parliament building with red water-soluble plant-based paint in Helsinki to highlight the destruction of the environment by Arctic peatlands. So the columns were smeared with paint, which could be washed off almost immediately. In a democracy…
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The US presidential election – we stand at a watershed in history
In Springfield, immigrants eat cats and dogs.” Donald Trump’s statement a couple of days ago in the debate against Kamala Harris is so absurd and nonsense that it shows how little Trump lives in the real world and how he believes in completely invented and false threat images. Behind the claim is a seemingly psychotic…
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Popper, ”paradox of tolerance”, Hitler, Trump and the modern far-right
The Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper wrote in his book ”Open society and its enemies” in 1945 about the ”paradox of tolerance” and warns of the danger of fascism and its bystanders. The paradox goes roughly like this: If tolerant people tolerate and accept intolerance, it follows that intolerant people like fascists and Nazis will take…
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Democracy and freedom under threat in Finland and globally
Most people in the world are not free. Liberal democracy is the result of a long development, which was influenced by e.g. the philosophy and ideals of ancient Greece, the Reformation and the Enlightenment of the 18th century. However, it is a rare treat. Only 1/4 of the world’s countries are democracies and at the…
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Russia’s ravening bear and China’s dragon created the rise of the extreme right in the West – The global democratic North must stand together or the risk is the destruction of the current world
Russia and China created the extreme right with the money from oil, gas and industries. Their geopolitical aim is to stop the unification and cooperation of the world. The worst thing that can happen to world is the re-election of Trump. The rise of the extreme right is one of the most significant global trends…
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The Dark history of fundamentalism from the murder of Hypatia to the present
On 22 October 1988, at the Paris premiere of Martin Scorsese’s film The Last Temptation of Christ, ”Christian” fundamentalists attacked the cinema with firebombs. 13 were injured, one fatally. The fundamentalists’ reason for the attack was a scene in the movie where Jesus feels a sexual attraction to Mary Magdalene.The roots of Christian terror are…
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The most dangerous persons on Earth, TOP-5
The most dangerous people in the world right now is the topic of this blog post. The state of the world has changed a lot in the last ten years. In the past, the most dangerous would definitely have included terrorists such as Osama Bin Laden, who was killed by US special forces Navy Seal…
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The Phantom menance – Fear creates the populist far right and stupidity sustains it
I previously wrote a blog post ”Political extremism arises from incompetence”. Now I return to the same theme. Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt, who fled Nazi persecution to the United States, presented in her 1951 work The Birth of Totalitarianism that political extremism and totalitarianism arise from people being separated and not having power over things.…
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Elysium – A Good Earth in the Year 2122
I present a thesis: the world’s problems are caused by relationships. Ecological problems, i.e. environmental problems, arise from the fact that man’s relationship with nature is broken, and social, i.e. societal problems, such as wars and poverty, from the fact that man’s relationship with other people is broken. In the Bible, the relationship between God…
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The roots of capitalism and fair economics – in fair play everybody wins
Bhopal, India On December 3, 1984, Union Carbide’s insecticide factory, owned by the US giant Dow Chemicals, releases huge amounts of toxic methylisocyanate into the air and water bodies in a short period of time. 3,500 people die from terrible poisoning symptoms, tens of thousands are injured, and later another 50,000 locals die from diseases…
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