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"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." "The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer" - Douglas Adams

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"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." - Douglas Adams

EARLY ONE DARK April morning a few yea... - Michael Booth

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"EARLY ONE DARK April morning a few years ago I was sitting in my living room in central Copenhagen, wrapped in a blanket and yearning for spring, when I opened that day’s newspaper to discover that my adopted countrymen had been anointed the happiest of their species in something called the Satisfaction with Life Index, compiled by the Department of Psychology at the University of Leicester. I checked the date on the newspaper: it wasn’t 1 April." - Douglas Adams

EARLY ONE DARK April morning a few years ago I was sitting in my living room in central Copenhagen, wrapped in a blanket and yearning for spring, when I opened that day’s newspaper to discover that my adopted countrymen had been anointed the happiest of their species in something called the Satisfaction with Life Index, compiled by the Department of Psychology at the University of Leicester. I checked the date on the newspaper: it wasn’t 1 April.

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Norwegian racism is always a kind of racism that is not prepared to accept it being qualified as such. Because we're the good guys, and racism is what bad people do.

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Hvad udad tabes, skal indad vindes. (What was lost without will be found within.)

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Before traveling to Iceland, I made a vow to myself that there were two subjects that I would not mention: Björk and elves.

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This, truly, is the ugly side of rampant neo-liberalist capitalism,” I thought to myself, leaving hurriedly. “Not even the Swedes would put Camembert and Tandoori sauce in a burger.” The

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Proper, deep, enduring joy usually requires a remarkable facility for denial, something which the Danes have in spades.

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Everything I read about the Swedish Social Democratic government of the last century suggested an organization that was driven by one single, overarching goal: to sever the traditional, some would say natural, ties between its citizens, be they those that bound children to their parents, workers to their employers, wives to their husbands, or the elderly to their families.

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The Swedish system is best understood not in terms of socialism, but in terms of Rousseau," he continued. "Rousseau was an extreme egalitarian and he really hated any kind of dependence--depending on other people destroyed your integrity, your authenticity-- therefore the ideal situation was one where every citizen was an atom separated from all the other atoms.... The Swedish system's logic is that it is dangerous to be dependent on other people, to be beholden to other people. Even to your family.

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Some might argue that the reality of Nordic autonomy is that you are free ... to be Nordic. If you are a Muslim who is looking to build a mosque, or an American who wants to drive a large car, espouse your deeply held Creationist beliefs, and go shopping with your platinum card on Sunday, or even if you are English and choose to conduct yourself according to archaic forms of baroque politeness, you are likely to experience varying degrees of oppression and exclusion should you come to live in this part of the world. This is true.

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In Sweden, self-sufficiency and autonomy is all; [interpersonal] debt of any kind, be it emotional, a favor, or cash, is to be avoided at all cost. The Swedes don't even like to owe a round of drinks.

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Swedes don't like to ask favors of each other: they keep their problems to themselves and suffer in silence. Being duktig is one facet of this: if you are duktig then you don't need any help, and as duktighet is the ultimate ideal for Swedes; to ask for help - or even to give it - is a kind of low-level social taboo.

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Living as a richer person among the poor is very stressful

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They are funny, too. And not always intentionally, either, which as far as I am concerned is the very best kind of funny.

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If you are spending more time matching your Kitchenaid to your kettle to your cupboards than you are cooking, something is very wrong.

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To achieve authentic, sustained happiness, above all else you need to be in charge of your life, to be in control of who you want to be, and be able to make the appropriate changes if you are not.

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Perhaps Danish happiness is not really happiness at all, but something much more valuable and durable: contentedness, being satisfied with your lot, low-level needs being met, higher expectations being kept in check.

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