“4. be sceptic (sic) to the media but think critically. no emotions involved.”

“What led a tiny fishing nation, population 300,000, to decide, around 2003, to re-invent itself as a global financial power? In Reykjavík, where men are men, and the women seem to have completely given up on them, the author follows the peculiarly Icelandic logic behind the meltdown.”

“Progress … cannot come about without a society appreciating liberty and justice generally. It cannot come without citizens that have respect for facts instead of faith in myths.”

*chortle*