Scanian_Libertarian Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Started listening to FDR about 2010 and it has affected me greatly. I think I will write a separate thread under "Self knowledge" about my new insights and ask some questions there about some things I've thought about, but there is no doubt that my views have been shaped strongly by my history and where I come from. When I was born in the 1970's, Sweden took a turn from bad to worse. The whole society was recast. Sweden got a new constitution. Central and local government was extended. The utopia would become a reality. The village where I grew up in rural southern Sweden once had its own school, but during my childhood me and my sister were the only children left there. I grew up in a veritable rust-belt, a depopulated area in disrepair. The town I went to school in, once had numerous shops, banks, cinemas, a library, a sports ground, a soccer team, train and bus connections etc, but when I went to school there it was essentially reduced to a ghost town with only the school and a retirement home left, and no public transports. If I wanted to go anywhere at all, my parents had to drive me there. Right or wrong, when I grew up I identified all these ills and my dull and lonely childhood with the large-scale and central planning that was the spirit of the time. Where everybody else saw effective planning and service, I saw impoverished social environments. In the rural area where I grew up, it had long been both a necessity and a genuine will, to be able to solve problems on ones own or with others, without dictation from politicians and beaureaucrats. Plus I grew up in a pretty dysfunctional family that belonged to a small, self-contained and even inbred (everyone was related to everyone except my family who were expatriates) evangelical Christian sect, in an area where hardly any were religious.Listening to FDR have made me think of things I never thought about before, and see things in a new light.For that, I can only say thank you so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeravos Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Welcome to the forums fellow swede! I am really sorry that you had to grow up with dysfunctional people. I want you to know (I think you already now this, but I know has helped me to hear it from others, might help you too ) that the people here on FDR are very nice, empathic people, and will give you empathy. Empathy that I am guessing you weren't given when you were a helpless child. But this place is different. Here, you can feel safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scanian_Libertarian Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 Thank you! I'm very happy to have found this place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magenta Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Welcome! How did you first hear about Freedomain Radio? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacbot Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Thank you! I'm very happy to have found this place. Hi Sweden criminalized spanking in 1979 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_punishment_in_the_home How is this effecting Swedish kids? I would think more reason and evidence based society and less dogma with no spanking, but maybe there are other equally distructive measures of discipline Is the law in effect and upheld? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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