He is definitely a misanthrope, but he is principled in his green views unlike most who are involved in green politics today. And that is why he makes some amount of sense nevertheless. Immigration and globalism are not some irrational holy cow for him as they are for some unfathomable reason for green parties of our time.
Some still think this way, I believe until all of us that do have lived out our lives 'they' should not be rushing us or anyone else madly into the unknown. Oh, and turn off the tv, all tech if you can. Amazing what real life offers without it.
Kyllä heitä kourallinen on, vaan toisaalta harmi kyllä, ovat aika hiljaisia, liian hiljaisia, vaan ehdottomasti silti niitä, jotka todella ovat oikeassa.
Hear, hear. You might want to change the title so that "Eng(lish) Sub(title)s" is prominent. I fear people may not click on it otherwise, assuming it to be in Finnish only.
I liked this guy a lot at first then I read his book and his comments on 9/11...lost all respect for him then...the joy and satisfaction he got from the murder of 3k people, just totally despicable.
To Linkola, the loss of 3000 human lives was nothing compared to the number of animal species killed by industrialization. His opinion pieces were deliberately polemical and he never bowed down to any idols put up by modern society. One can characterize him as a misanthrope but I wouldn't do that because of the heartfelt way he talks about simpler cultures and people in the past (like he does in this video).
He primarily saw 9/11 as a strike against capitalism and industrial modern society that also required lives of servants of capitalism. Linkola didn’t think that any random mass shooting or terrorist attack was beneficial as killing from several hundred to thousands doesn’t change anything.
@@christianheikkonen He said he was proud of the hijackers. 3k innocent people were murdered. He says he was glad it happened. I know a couple people who died that day. He is glad they were murdered? I don't care what it "symbolizes" - you don't celebrate violence and murder and makes comments in support of it. That is sick.
@@Mccracken1987 Well, he was happy about all disasters that happened to people. How do you solve overpopulation if you won’t get rid off people that are the part of overpopulation? Do you just recognise a problem but don’t want to solve it? Do you just want to let everyone die then if you don’t want to get rid off the overpopulation?
@@christianheikkonen It is very easy to speak about such things clinically when you do not have personal involvement. You can intellectually and from a distance theorize about such things, but when you have human relations who are victims, it becomes very real. Maybe because he lived alone in the woods and hated people, he cannot relate to having a close loved one be killed and the consequences from a personal loss. To cheer on this is to applaud murder. So can we say he approves of murder? Does that solve overpopulation? What if it happened to one of his close relatives, or yours? Do you see where this thinking leads us?
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