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A nation that has 44 stars of Michelin earns an asset from the dinner visit and then invents the oppressive appetite ozepica is either multitalent, or very foolish. Be that as it may, I am again in the Danish capital. If it is not the restaurants that make the Copenhagen my favorite city in the world of this size, then it may be architectural mixing, or uninhabited Bohemia. It was told for Michael Laudrup born from Frederiksberg that he would have been the biggest footballer ever, but came from a very kind environment. This always seemed to me like a defining folly. Looking around, I wonder. . .
For a political nut, Denmark has another point of interest. One of the most difficult places to decide philosophically. It presents as left-liberal, but is harsh for immigration. (Foreign born is 12 percent of the population, in 21.) of Sweden.) Welfare is generous, but bosses can hire and fire with freedom. (“Flexicisence” is the unmiscian word for this mix of market forces and paternalism.) Even in its foreign relations, Denmark is a donor of pet aid AND NATO founding member, with none of the neutrality Sweden kept up until it became unsafe and uncomfortable.
Almost almost as if – can you believe it? – The country approaches each issue with its own conditions. Regular readers may be familiar with the Ganeshi’s theory of Ganeshi’s policy: for people not to resolve their beliefs, but to take them as a kind of packaged software, as they decide to be liberal of the team or Team Maga. This explains why, after knowing someone’s appearance in Gaza, you can extrapoly extrapoly their view of tightening, climate, block, dei and another mistake.
Well, those who keep the habit, who think the case-after, need to write as well. Retired Judge Jonathan Ssium is the only person with a note he can think of in British public life supporting the EU, but not the European Convention on Human Rights. This is despite his attitude that is fully stable (and, who knows, the future politics of the country). There are people of sublime intelligence and political engagement throughout the hour who do not know that both institutions are different. What matters to them, I think, is that both are “coded” liberal, and therefore good, or both malicious, depending on someone’s priors.
Who else has what we can call a Danish – that is, heterodox – of the mind? Journalist Peter Hitchens is a conservative of the church and king with non-coreal views on unions, government shelter and even World War II. (Like his brother Christopher, at the height of his left, he supported Margaret Thatcher on Falklands.) Who among Jeremy Clarkson’s fans or enemies knows that he has favored a “United States of Europe”, with “an army”, long before last month’s shocks or more?
The tragedy is that, in a tribal era, this kind is encountered as deliberate arrogance or opposition, when it is only the sign of a person who thinks.
And “tragedy” is not a histronic word. How bad things take in the coming years, how much of the Democratic West survives, depends on whether conservatives who now think something bad is continuing to resist the impulse to climb the team. I have peers who came to Maga through one reason or another – hatred of smart, typically, but blocking was another factor, such as bourgeois boredom – which would have to make enough decision. Will they approach the issues by their conditions, and therefore see the obvious economic, constitutional and geopolitical reasons to leave the train? Or the emotional comfort of a political tribe, the structure and affiliation it provides in atomized times, will lead them to who knows where? John Bolton’s likes show that one can be a nationalist, even a Jingo, without being recorded for all Creed Trumpist. Next to him, the British right looks like language and almost catatonic late.
After all, random pragmatism from the Danish Statuphous case is just a very model. If everyone elaborated their beliefs on every topic from the first principles, they would not be much more. If nothing else, then, the tribal approach to ideas is efficient. Just the mind that you get the right tribe.
Janan.gans@ft.com
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