What are the main challenges that Estonia faces today?
1. The government and parliament became a corporation which pursues only its own interests. Pseudo-intellectuals, careerists and sociopaths are in office and they act in their selfish interests and for the benefit of wealthy men.
The Estonian power is anxious with its own international prestige. A striking example of it is "Estonian air", a state-owned airline which was liquidated and fined by the EU for distortion of competion. Whaling sums of money from the taxpayers were poured into it just for the sake of prestige, so that the ruling class and businessmen would fly this airline and could be proud of the fact that the country in which they live and do business, has its own airline.
Now the government of Estonia is going to spend 22 million euros for repair of the building of Embassy of Estonia in Moscow. With this money it is possible to build 1000 houses for residents of Estonia.
A few years ago another state-owned company "Eesti Energia" paid 50 million euros to the person advising the company. It is obvious that this mad fee was not for the benefit of residents of Estonia.
Electing and supporting a corporate president who, in principle, isn't necessary to most of citizens, but he is necessary to the corporation of officials and businessmen for the sake of maintenance of the international prestige of the country.
The state gives money to useless, inefficient officials and pays them salaries for creating an illusion of labor activity, because of fear to lose prestige and control over society, and also to reduce social tension. Why not to pay money for doing nothing to everybody? People would invent their own employment.
To put it shortly, instead of increasing quality of life and wellbeing of residents of Estonia, the government spends money for showing off and keeps their own people under lock and key.
Therefore I think that the government should resign, and the ideology of the authorities must change drastically. The power should respect a person living in Estonia and to care for him!
Today the invented state interests are above the interests of the person. And this is the reason for inequality, injustice, poverty, corruption. But it will not change due to the government's own free will, and the Estonian "people keep silence". And here is one more vital issue:
2. A weak civil society and lack of a positive social protest and peaceful disobedience for the benefit of civil society and each resident of Estonia. A society should control the power, and not the other way around. Today Estonia is controlled by the intelligence agencies.
I don't see that Estonians are a civil nation and can control their authorities. They are very similar to Russians, Belarusians, Uzbeks in this. Estonians are long-suffering, timid, glad to be deceived and with lack of solidarity. Sometimes doctors and teachers strike, but it is very rare. Nobody else strikes. Unconstructive forms of protest are more popular in Estonia: alcoholism, drug addiction, crime, rare refusals of chattel slavery, economic migration, and also tax avoidance and bankruptcy with further settlement of debts.
Nonetheless, I don't see a tendency to positive changes for the benefit of all society.
It's painful for me to see how an Estonian single mother can't repair a fireplace and a roof of her small house - the house which used to be a summer house. For many years she has been on antidepressants. It is painful for me to see the Estonian poor people who seldom wash, saving water, and instead of shampoo they use dishwashing liquid. It is painful to me to hear how a person who doesn't have money for dental care pulls out a painful tooth with flat-nose pliers himself. It's painful to see Estonian alcoholics sleeping right on the road. It is sad to think that the country is dying out and turning into a hospice with the armed security forces consisting of the army of NATO.
In my opinion, Estonia is on the verge of catastrophic crash. The population promptly grows old and dies out. The territory of the country becomes empty. The citizens work for a minimum wage and 75% aren't satisfied with their jobs. The youth leaves the country. Estonia is on the first place on alcohol consumption. The problem of a depression costs very seriously. There is stagnation in the country. There is a militarization in high gear. Obvious deficit of intellectuals is felt. Estonia is ruled by poshes who receive a ministerial salary for suggesting to impose a tax on sugar or to spend 400 000 euros for the translation of summaries to drugs instead of obliging the pharmaceutical companies to do it under the law. Such examples of silliness are too many! This desire of the Estonian society to bear this imperious burden seems irrational to me.
The Allocentric party of Estonia proposes the following measures to resolve the deadlock:
1. The present government should resign. Intellectuals from the Scandinavian countries who can construct a Nordic model of a happy society by the example of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, should be invited to work in the government .
2. The deputies of the Riigikogu, the president, members of the government, and also officials should work for a minimum wage. In power there shouldn't be wealthy people who are richer then the bulk of the population.
3. Foreigners such as permanent alien citizens should be legislatively allowed to be elected to the parliament of Estonia and local government bodies, to hold positions in the government of Estonia. Social and political ideas, as well as scientific ones, should compete, and their carriers should have an opportunity to implement their ideas in Estonia in case if the citizens support them.
4. The progressive scale of the taxation should be implemented - the more the person earns, the more taxes he pays.
5. The policy of decentralization should begin, which means that it's necessary to populate all the territory of Estonia, settling Tallinn.
6. The state should grant non-interest loans to the population for the construction of private housing. An ordinary house costs about 15000 euro.
7. It is necessary to oblige hypermarkets not to throw out products, but to give them away for charitable needs!
8. To reduce the bureaucratic structures which are engaged in unproductive activity - for example, language inspection, institute of human rights, unemployment insurance fund.
9. To refuse public financing of mass media. Media should be only private.
10. The basic unconditional income should be implemented. That means, that the residents of Estonia should have a choice: to work somewhere for a salary or to receive an unconditional income - about 600 euros. It will revive economy and give the citizens a chance to do their favorite things.
11. There shouldn't be such an obstacle for construction of a private house as in the form of the high price of the land. The land, in principle, shouldn't be traded.
12. The state shouldn't spend more money for arms, than it is recommended by NATO.
13. To shorten working hours to 6 by the example of Sweden.
14. To legalize marijuana by the example of Holland.
15. Regular schools should be private and compete among themselves!
16. New active immigrant policy. To attract professionals and intellectuals, and also people with the equity, granting them a permanent residence or citizenship.
Maxim Efimov,
founder of the Allocentric party of Estonia, social philosopher, social critic
Translated by Irina Efimova
1. The government and parliament became a corporation which pursues only its own interests. Pseudo-intellectuals, careerists and sociopaths are in office and they act in their selfish interests and for the benefit of wealthy men.
The Estonian power is anxious with its own international prestige. A striking example of it is "Estonian air", a state-owned airline which was liquidated and fined by the EU for distortion of competion. Whaling sums of money from the taxpayers were poured into it just for the sake of prestige, so that the ruling class and businessmen would fly this airline and could be proud of the fact that the country in which they live and do business, has its own airline.
Now the government of Estonia is going to spend 22 million euros for repair of the building of Embassy of Estonia in Moscow. With this money it is possible to build 1000 houses for residents of Estonia.
A few years ago another state-owned company "Eesti Energia" paid 50 million euros to the person advising the company. It is obvious that this mad fee was not for the benefit of residents of Estonia.
Electing and supporting a corporate president who, in principle, isn't necessary to most of citizens, but he is necessary to the corporation of officials and businessmen for the sake of maintenance of the international prestige of the country.
The state gives money to useless, inefficient officials and pays them salaries for creating an illusion of labor activity, because of fear to lose prestige and control over society, and also to reduce social tension. Why not to pay money for doing nothing to everybody? People would invent their own employment.
To put it shortly, instead of increasing quality of life and wellbeing of residents of Estonia, the government spends money for showing off and keeps their own people under lock and key.
Therefore I think that the government should resign, and the ideology of the authorities must change drastically. The power should respect a person living in Estonia and to care for him!
Today the invented state interests are above the interests of the person. And this is the reason for inequality, injustice, poverty, corruption. But it will not change due to the government's own free will, and the Estonian "people keep silence". And here is one more vital issue:
2. A weak civil society and lack of a positive social protest and peaceful disobedience for the benefit of civil society and each resident of Estonia. A society should control the power, and not the other way around. Today Estonia is controlled by the intelligence agencies.
I don't see that Estonians are a civil nation and can control their authorities. They are very similar to Russians, Belarusians, Uzbeks in this. Estonians are long-suffering, timid, glad to be deceived and with lack of solidarity. Sometimes doctors and teachers strike, but it is very rare. Nobody else strikes. Unconstructive forms of protest are more popular in Estonia: alcoholism, drug addiction, crime, rare refusals of chattel slavery, economic migration, and also tax avoidance and bankruptcy with further settlement of debts.
Nonetheless, I don't see a tendency to positive changes for the benefit of all society.
It's painful for me to see how an Estonian single mother can't repair a fireplace and a roof of her small house - the house which used to be a summer house. For many years she has been on antidepressants. It is painful for me to see the Estonian poor people who seldom wash, saving water, and instead of shampoo they use dishwashing liquid. It is painful to me to hear how a person who doesn't have money for dental care pulls out a painful tooth with flat-nose pliers himself. It's painful to see Estonian alcoholics sleeping right on the road. It is sad to think that the country is dying out and turning into a hospice with the armed security forces consisting of the army of NATO.
In my opinion, Estonia is on the verge of catastrophic crash. The population promptly grows old and dies out. The territory of the country becomes empty. The citizens work for a minimum wage and 75% aren't satisfied with their jobs. The youth leaves the country. Estonia is on the first place on alcohol consumption. The problem of a depression costs very seriously. There is stagnation in the country. There is a militarization in high gear. Obvious deficit of intellectuals is felt. Estonia is ruled by poshes who receive a ministerial salary for suggesting to impose a tax on sugar or to spend 400 000 euros for the translation of summaries to drugs instead of obliging the pharmaceutical companies to do it under the law. Such examples of silliness are too many! This desire of the Estonian society to bear this imperious burden seems irrational to me.
The Allocentric party of Estonia proposes the following measures to resolve the deadlock:
1. The present government should resign. Intellectuals from the Scandinavian countries who can construct a Nordic model of a happy society by the example of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, should be invited to work in the government .
2. The deputies of the Riigikogu, the president, members of the government, and also officials should work for a minimum wage. In power there shouldn't be wealthy people who are richer then the bulk of the population.
3. Foreigners such as permanent alien citizens should be legislatively allowed to be elected to the parliament of Estonia and local government bodies, to hold positions in the government of Estonia. Social and political ideas, as well as scientific ones, should compete, and their carriers should have an opportunity to implement their ideas in Estonia in case if the citizens support them.
4. The progressive scale of the taxation should be implemented - the more the person earns, the more taxes he pays.
5. The policy of decentralization should begin, which means that it's necessary to populate all the territory of Estonia, settling Tallinn.
6. The state should grant non-interest loans to the population for the construction of private housing. An ordinary house costs about 15000 euro.
7. It is necessary to oblige hypermarkets not to throw out products, but to give them away for charitable needs!
8. To reduce the bureaucratic structures which are engaged in unproductive activity - for example, language inspection, institute of human rights, unemployment insurance fund.
9. To refuse public financing of mass media. Media should be only private.
10. The basic unconditional income should be implemented. That means, that the residents of Estonia should have a choice: to work somewhere for a salary or to receive an unconditional income - about 600 euros. It will revive economy and give the citizens a chance to do their favorite things.
11. There shouldn't be such an obstacle for construction of a private house as in the form of the high price of the land. The land, in principle, shouldn't be traded.
12. The state shouldn't spend more money for arms, than it is recommended by NATO.
13. To shorten working hours to 6 by the example of Sweden.
14. To legalize marijuana by the example of Holland.
15. Regular schools should be private and compete among themselves!
16. New active immigrant policy. To attract professionals and intellectuals, and also people with the equity, granting them a permanent residence or citizenship.
Maxim Efimov,
founder of the Allocentric party of Estonia, social philosopher, social critic
Translated by Irina Efimova
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