Outmoded by the reality...

the work of beavers.

A Swedish writer, Maria-Pia Boëthius in a leader-chronicle:

Media is trying to make the debate apolitical, but she thinks this won’t be a successful strategy because the policy is on its way back. And this time not as entertainment – but as a necessity for life.

She wonders what the next bubble bursting will be. Presumably the blown-up entertainment industry, which during the mad-capitalism consumed “the most of it”: the policy, the literature, the societal debate and so on.

To make the debate apolitical and push it in the direction entertainment the Medias have employed a young, trend setting generation whose premier merit has been that it has cooperated with the power and Mammon.

The myth is that every generation is making revolt, but this Media-generation has “liked the situation” and been the power of assistance through uninterruptedly dramatizing the consumption and create debates, not least through attacks on different celebrities, half-celebrities and arrange distributions of prizes where they give each other prizes. What is their rebellion about? Against what? How?

In Sweden we have many established truths to get out of. One says that all political parties, except for maybe the left party – have accepted the market-economy. But now there is no consensus about what this market economy is or how it shall become designed in the future, so it is fairly uncertain what the parties actually are in agreement about. Boëthius thinks the parties don’t even know themselves.

She had heard an interview on radio with a sociologist from London School of Economics saying that we will now see nationalizing, socializing of – not only banks.

“Isn’t that leftish?”

the reporter asked.

And Boëthius was struck by the thought that she had never heard a public-service-reporter ask:

“Isn’t that rightist? Isn’t that neoliberal?”

in a challenging voice – as if public service instead of trying to be neutral make itself known as non-left.

The British sociologist laughed at the question and replied:

“If I had said that the British state would nationalize banks one year ago one had seen me as mad!”

The high-sounding empty phrases from media that “all political parties are alike” isn’t true she thinks. Does media has interests in that politics become that??

She thinks that politics is coming back, not as entertainment, but as a life necessity. And that the symbiosis between politicians and media is dissolving.

The experience-industry and the blown up entertainment industry suddenly seem outmoded and passed by the reality. The reality itself has shown to be far more dramatic than any manuscript-author could have thought out.