Today 12.3.2015, 40 days after www.newfinns was initially launched (30.1.2015) the unique visits counter (allocated at the down-left corner of the site, your left shoulder), has reached 4000 ☺! Then in geographical aspect the site has been opened from over 20 countries as for now the only missing inhabited continent is South-America. Here I enclose you a map for the visits during the last 4 days:
visitor's map
Well that’s some good news and may the site’s popularity grow even further, because its prime goal is the renewal of the way of thinking of my Finnish society, regarding that I believe the New Finns and Europeans, defined as open-minded creative and productive way of thinking, are a substantial part and promoter!
But then my smaller aspiration to rise as an official independent candidate for the coming Finnish Parliamentary election ended with .... only 60% success☺. I mean that all by myself I’ve managed to get only about 60 out of the 100 Helsinki-residents signatures needed in order to become an official candidate. In other words I did not qualify, but still in the country of the former True Finns, nowadays the Finns, I prefer to count my 60% as a success, especially after everything was done within only 40 days and facing a lot of obstacles, that on the other hand gave me new insights about my society. Regarding the latter and after living for 17 years in Finland I really did not expect that the society is really so closed and .... centrally directed. What I mean, well sadly pretty much because of my New Finns aspiration, I was discriminatory fired from ... and I did not get a single signature from my former employer Kauppalehti Oy (see. also my comment Local realities at the European backstage), which is sad, because many of my colleagues like me and if they did not fear would have signed. Plus almost the same thing happened with my previous employer HelB Oy (see my CV), with the difference that some of my colleagues signed my papers outside the office ... away from the perimeter of the boss, who prior to that expelled me form the premises of the firm, which is his right but I really hoped for better acceptance and support....
So 60 signatures, gathered for practically about 3 weeks and because of the reasons cited above from mostly fully unknown people is practically quite good and according to me shows that within the society there is space and need for innovation and renewal, but for now they are not allowed to happen for some or many reasons, such as the fact that vast majority of the current local decision makers are quite aged people, who have grown in pretty much closed and homogeneous society. For them open-minded ideas as the globalization, the EU project or the New Finns and Europeans are something probably frightening or at least challenging their beliefs and commonly accepted norms of behaviour!? Well I would not argue that in many regards the elderly experience is valuable, but regarding my renewal aspiration I would dare to object, simply because the World moves forward on its own! After all the Stone Age did not finish because the stones had finished☺, just someone or rather big enough group of people noticed the iron and helped the mankind move forward too☺. For that I would dare to imply that the experience of many of the local elderly people lacks experience regarding the mentioned globalization, EU project and so concepts and realities and fully lacks the related to the digital age and pretty much generation experience. During their youth that dimension simply did not exist.
So following that way of thoughts I wish to believe that, despite of the really bad proportion of the young towards elderly in Finland, more and more young people will get the chance to decide and to govern and may some of them, some day, be members of the New Finnish and European generation for real!
Kind regards, Rosti