So called "people's doctor", Tapani Kiminkinen, said in last week's Vihreä lanka that's Finnish attitudes have changed a lot in last decades. Whether it is about digestion problems, peeing problems or erection problems, a today's Finn is always asking for a pill to fix a problem.
Our non-governmental organizations are worried about decreasing activism and falling amount of people participating into volunteer work. People join organizations, give few euros, pay their membership fees and think it's enough. When there's no one to do the work, how will the organization's money turn into action?
The Facebook "like"-phenomenon is familiar to lots of people too. It's easy to sign addresses, petitions and do the "liking" in Facebook, but when for example the degrowth should start, no one's ready to give up their benefits. Or when the personal freedom of choice is limited due to ecological reasons, the same "likers" are on barricades screaming for rights. But again - it's just a noise - no action.
Is this happening just in Finland? When did we turn into cattle without own capacity to think and power to act? Or are we just market-copies of each other and everyone's afraid the break the reality so the disguise wouldn't fall of?
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