Iceland: The Curse of the New Conformity

Zusammenfassung

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Foster comments about Iceland, where the road taken by a lump of shifting, explosive northern Atlantic rock with a tiny population and a globally irrelevant economy sounds like pointless self-indulgence. Iceland's mysterious natural flux meant that a new geological world was made there every day. People came because it was different from what they had come from.

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Iceland: The Curse of the New Conformity

I love Iceland dearly, but it has lost its way. A comment about the road taken by a lump of shifting, explosive northern Atlantic rock with a tiny population and a globally irrelevant economy sounds like pointless self-indulgence. But in fact this island is a terrifyingly accurate piece of social litmus which says something useful about the rest of the world.

To say that Iceland has lost its way implies, of course, that it had a way. It had, and to some extent still has. It is that way which has kept me going back and back to it over decades. It was a nation of settlers, who ba...

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