Comments on: Carrotmobbing, Youth and Culture http://www.facade.fi/2008/09/carrotmobbing-and-culture/ HENRI WEIJO* Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:59:37 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Henri Weijo http://www.facade.fi/2008/09/carrotmobbing-and-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-465 Henri Weijo Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:54:58 +0000 http://www.facade.fi/?p=82#comment-465 Thanks Tommi for your comment. Yes, I'm a bit surprised myself that your take on why young people are politically inactive didn't get more ink in the press. But I guess the old tried and tested "a healthy democracy is about people dropping a ballot every few years" is just too great a truth to challenge. Thanks Tommi for your comment. Yes, I'm a bit surprised myself that your take on why young people are politically inactive didn't get more ink in the press. But I guess the old tried and tested “a healthy democracy is about people dropping a ballot every few years” is just too great a truth to challenge.

]]> By: Tommi Uschanov http://www.facade.fi/2008/09/carrotmobbing-and-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-464 Tommi Uschanov Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:08:50 +0000 http://www.facade.fi/?p=82#comment-464 When writing the book, I half expected - even hoped - that the short section on the disillusionment of today's youth would become one of the parts that would attract the most attention. In fact, up to now, some thirty or forty different people have written about my book on the net and in various print publications, but you are actually the very first one to give even the briefest consideration to the section on youth. (One newspaper reviewer mentioned youth, but only as one item in a long list of subjects the book treats, and without saying anything about what I write. That is all.)<br><br>It seems that discussing the subject of the catastrophic new copyright and censorship legislation is ideologically forbidden in Finland in a far deeper and more absolute way than even I pessimistically remarked in my book. For a paranoiac, this is naturally fulfilling, but at the same time intensely disturbing. It is heartening to know that at least somebody has actually not only read what I wrote, but agreed with it - thanks for that! When writing the book, I half expected – even hoped – that the short section on the disillusionment of today's youth would become one of the parts that would attract the most attention. In fact, up to now, some thirty or forty different people have written about my book on the net and in various print publications, but you are actually the very first one to give even the briefest consideration to the section on youth. (One newspaper reviewer mentioned youth, but only as one item in a long list of subjects the book treats, and without saying anything about what I write. That is all.)

It seems that discussing the subject of the catastrophic new copyright and censorship legislation is ideologically forbidden in Finland in a far deeper and more absolute way than even I pessimistically remarked in my book. For a paranoiac, this is naturally fulfilling, but at the same time intensely disturbing. It is heartening to know that at least somebody has actually not only read what I wrote, but agreed with it – thanks for that!

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