Today, 2 April 2019, on 'veneziepost': “Happiness also influences voting. Where there is none, populists win”, by Alberto Mattioli.
“Italy 36th in the World Happiness Report presented at Bocconi. The Scandinavians are in the lead. The experts: 'Well-being conditions participation in political life and the choice of party'.”
With the following article we show you how happy Scandinavians are.
by Giulio Meotti, “The Sheet”
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland. Wellbeing rankings always reward them but why do happy countries have such high suicide rates? Numbers of a counter-history
Asked where the happiest country in the world is, we hear the answer that it is somewhere up there, in Nord Europa. Effectively, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland have stood out in all the world rankings of the most blessed countries for ten years now. Oslo has just displaced Copenhagen at the top of the United Nations happiness index. They are among the darkest and coldest countries in the world, so these very high rates of happiness must depend on the type of society they have built. “A country with sixty percent taxes and where everyone is happy to pay them”, as the Observer defined Sweden. Norwegian prisons are once “superior” to any other penitentiary on the planet. Another is the Swedish roads, the safest in the world. These five countries can boast the most cutting-edge school systems (Finland); an example of a secular society, multicultural, modern and industrial envied by all (Sweden); a colossal oil wealth reinvested in ethical causes (Norway); the most gender-equal society in the world and the longest-living men (Iceland). As the cabaret artist Magnus Betner wrote, we imagine Sweden as “a nation of beautiful people singing happy songs in elegant modernist apartments”. Or as the Telegraph's Judith Woods wrote: “We would all like to be Scandinavian!”. And progressives all over the planet would like it to be so, da Bernie Sanders a Paul Krugman. “If you want the American dream, go to Finland”, said British Labor leader Ed Miliband.

An OECD report suggests that the moods of Scandinavian people may be linked to chemistry. According to the report, Thirty percent of Icelandic women have had an antidepressant prescription in their lifetime. It is estimated that the 38 percent of Danish women and the 32 percent percent of Danish men will receive mental health treatment at some point during their lives. Homogeneous and closed countries, as the InterNations Expat Insider 2016 survey places Denmark at the top of the world rankings of countries where "it is most difficult to make friends".
Sweden has another record. The city of Gothenburg has sent more terrorists per capita to fight with the Islamic State than any other city in Europe. The second largest city in Sweden, a country that prides itself on being pacifist and neutralist, sees its inhabitants particularly engaged in a project: the Islamic holy war. Sweden has become a textbook case, with articles like the one in Foreign Policy: “From the welfare state to the caliphate”. Happiness made of contradictions, if we think that Norwegians are as proud of their environmentalism as they pump more than one and a half million barrels of oil a day.
Sweden and Denmark are also the countries in Europe where the highest number of sexual assaults is recorded. A nation of marauders or mere hysteria in what the Guardian called "the most successful society the world has known"? In the 1994, Sweden became the first country in the world with half of its parliament composed only of women. Since then it has broken every world record for gender equality. How did this open-air experiment become the second country in the world for the number of rapes, second only to Lesotho? James Traub in Foreign Policy called it “the death of the most generous country on earth”. Sweden ranks second among the countries with the highest rate of sexual violence in the world with 53,2 rape every 100 thousand inhabitants, surpassed only by the small state of Lesotho, in southern Africa, which records 91,6 sexual abuse every 100 thousand inhabitants.

Happy and eugenic countries. The number of children born with Down syndrome in Denmark has fallen dramatically in recent years, so much so that by 2030 it might already be a bad memory. Denmark wants to become "the first 'Down free' country".
In the 2015, il 98 percent of pregnant women with Down syndrome children chose to have an abortion. “We are approaching a situation where almost all pregnancies are terminated”, Lilian Bondo told the Danish press, head of the Jordemoderforeningen obstetrics association. Denmark is second in the world for equal income distribution, third for the democracy index, sixth for environmental quality, seventh for per capita wealth and eighth for economic freedom, works fewer hours per year than any other country in the world, but it is also a country where every year only two Down syndrome children are born by choice and thirty-two due to "diagnosis error". They also theorize it ideologically as “sorteringssamfundet”: order of society.
Sweden, on the other hand, has the highest number of children confused with their gender. Louise Frisén, child psychiatrist at the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, he just told Aftonbladet that in 2016 ben 197 children have proposed to “transition” and change sex: “There is a one hundred percent increase every year, and the people we are seeing are younger and increasingly children". The head of the gender identity team at Karolinska University Hospital, Cecilia Dhejne, he said the increase in children unhappy with their gender reflected "a greater openness" in Swedish society.
The very happy Scandinavians have very high suicide rates. Or as Times magazine puts it, “Why the happiest countries have the highest suicide rates”. And it's not the cold's fault, given that in the United States Hawaii stands out for suicides. More than a decade after Arto Paasilinna's book “Small suicides among friends”, Finland's suicide rate is still double that of the European Union and is surpassed only by Japan. The sociologist Herbert Hendin in the book "Suicide and Scandinavia" blames the Scandinavian mentality for breaking the bond between children and parents very early to facilitate self-determination. The "suicide capital of the world" is in Danish Greenland. A per capita rate 24 times higher than that of the United States.
Finns also have the first murder rate per capita in Europe. Very happy and very alone. In Sweden, in thirty years, the number of people at funerals has gone from 49 a 24. More people die alone in Sweden than anywhere else in the world. Stockholm is known as “the singles capital of the world”. One in ten Swedes leaves home without relatives. Three out of five apartments have only one inhabitant. It is the place in the world where women resort to artificial self-insemination the most. A kit arrives at home by courier and they form a family on their own. Denmark is no less alone. Secondo “People in the EU”, a new publication from Eurostat, the Danes to 45 percent live alone, followed by another happy country, Finland.
Norway has another record: it is “the heroin capital of the world”: Oslo's sewer waters contain more amphetamines than any other European country and it has the highest number of overdose deaths of the rest of the continent. Certainly things are going well in Northern Europe. But this “Scandimania” has something grotesque. Every company, including the very supportive Scandinavian social democracy, It has its own troubles. And there is still hope that an average Italian, placed in fortieth place on the UN happiness index, may be happier than a self-determining Norwegian or Finnish citizen.
Some have compared the obsequious Scandinavians to lemmings, from the name of the rodents, not much different from mice, who live in the mountains of Sweden, of Norway and Finland and rushing down the mountains until they reach the sea. As if gripped by an obsession, they throw themselves into the waters, furiously, dying by the millions, as if they were driven by an uncontainable terror, a kind of panic and collective psychosis.
source – https://www.ilfoglio.it/esteri/2017/03/20/news/onu-felicita-norvegia-svezia-danimarca-italia-eroina-suicidi-126215/