Who has been teaching Icelanders to loathe themselves? It’s not as if Icelanders suppressed any indigenous population, had colonies, or started wars.
Exactly, but I guess leftist see how useful self loathing has been in other countries and are thus trying to introduce it here (albeit probably not conciously). They tried to build up a loathing for bussiness and the can do attitude, saying that we had been building ourself to high and thus when it all came crashing down, we should be ashamed, instead of pick us back up and begin anew. Classic socialliberal self loathing like you see everywhere in the west today.