“In Denmark we do not raise the inventive, the hardworking, the ones with initiative, the successful or the outstanding, we create hopelessness, helplessness and the sacred, ordinary mediocrity.” He seems here to be echoing something else Mary Wollstonecraft observed. She wrote that the Danes’ love of money “does not render the people enterprising, as in America, but thrifty and cautious. I never, therefore, was in a capital where there was so little appearance of active industry,” later adding that “the Danes, in general, seem extremely averse to innovation.” As The Economist put it in their
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