Reykjavík Grapevine - 07.01.2011, Side 32

STUFFED WITH STUFF ISSUE 1 YOUR FREE COPY
YOUR ESSEnTIal gUIDE
TO lIFE, TRavEl anD
EnTERTaInmEnT In ICElanD
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Some say our greatest loss is our
reputation as an honest and trustworthy
people. Because in our case, we did not
suffer an attack from an outside enemy.
In our case the enemy came from
within.
Former Foreign Affairs Minister Jón Baldvin
Hannibalsson knows his enemies
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Moral consciousness is a feeling, and
the trust it creates is a feeling also.
And if feelings live in the heart then our
hearts are being torn out, along with our
liver and lungs.
Elísabet Jökulsdóttir wonders about where
we’re at
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Thank God this nation has progressed
in a linear fashion since day one, but not
in a cyclic eternal spiral shape of the
second and the third world. Therefore
we can easily assume that the best of
the decade did in fact take place in the
year 2010.
Ásmundur Ásmundsson sums up Icelandic art
in the last decade
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Iceland saw three elections in 2010. Vot-
ers failed all of them.
Student Hilmar Magnússon is not amused
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I think this will be the decade of less
crap and more fun and creative thought.
Best Party CEO Heiða Kristín Helgadóttir kind
of is
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I think I know where the confidence and
swagger came from. Davíð Oddsson.
Hard to explain how adored he was,
other than to say Davíð is to economic
policy as Ronald Reagan is to nuclear
policy.
Bart Cameron considers Icelandic swagger,
good and bad
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