Nordic Ideology: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book Two

by Hanzi Freinacht

To maintain public faith in the institutions of government and to ensure social stability in a democratically inclined late-modern society, new measures were needed to increase social mobility and limit the extent of social problems. Affecting behavior in the public domain wasn’t enough. Gemeinschaft Politics had to go domestic. The material welfare of underprivileged families became a societal concern so as to prevent poverty, poor health and lack of education, all of which hinder children from becoming productive members of society. Even such seemingly private matters as what people ought to eat and how to avoid sexually transmitted diseases became a concern for the expanding welfare state. But the state also began to interfere in more intimate affairs such as child neglect, substance abuse, domestic violence, divorce rights, abortion and so on, so as to avoid the marginalizing effects of dysfunctional social relations at home.