Jón Ólafsson

One would tend to think about any political agenda that it is, if it brings success, a beginning, rather than the end of something. Or, if it is a beginning, that it is not also the end. In Iceland, this is different. Here success of a program or initiative, seems to be seal its death. [...]

We know very well that a group of people may show more competence than the best single person in that group. Therefore collective decisionmaking makes perfect sense and a democratic decision may bring out a better solution than any single person could. Using this criterion for the collective decision of Icelanders to reject the Icesave [...]

I know now what I don’t like about Inspired by Iceland. I needed actually to see the video first, before I could be sure. It’s the intense and self-congratulatory attitude conveyed by the whole action. Inspired by Iceland presents Icelanders as just the kind of creatures I would not like to be. Does this mean [...]