Today is election time in Sweden and it is a historical opportunity the Swedes have. If the government would be re elected it would be the first time in 102 years that a right wing government is re elected. Amazing!
But viewing the election from a distance and reading the programs of the different parties, I realise that my Swedish have been side stepped. I speak and read an educated Swedish and suddenly I realise that the way media and political parties use words, that I of course know the meaning of, in another context. Some words are hi jacked so to speak, they do not mean what they are supposed to mean, but have received a political context.
One such word for me is Life style. If you say that “this is my life style” you suggest that you are a modern, politically correct (in itself a strange term, is there only one politic ?) and someone who is open to alternative life styles. Why not say way of life instead?
My conclusion of this is of course drawn towards the arts and more concretely art forms.
I believe that today the most important art form, something that should be prioritised, is Poetry. If we lose the poetry, we lose words and if we lose words we lose ourselves and our identity.
So what so I do with this new found insight. Well, I turn of the news, close the newspaper and look for my Stagnelius book.
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