Said about the Swedish rock poet Stefan Sundström in a local Swedish newspaper:
“He pursues his own resistance movement in an era of commercialized idol ideals. He uses words set to music as the primary mean to tell about the lives and dreams of those who are made invisible [and whose voices aren't heard, voices that are maybe taken from them].”
Has the individualism made people lonely? And invisible?
What would good “individualism” be about? Respect (deep, genuine)for each individual?
Judith Lewis Herman writes in the beginning of the chapter “A Forgotten History” in her book “Trauma and Recovery – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror” that:
“The study of psychological trauma has a curious history – one of episodic amnesia. Periods of active investigation have alternated with periods of oblivion. Repeatedly in the past century, similar lines of inquiry have been taken up and abruptly abandoned, only to be rediscovered much later. Classic documents of fifty or one hundred years ago often read like contemporary works. Though the field has in fact an abundant and rich tradition; it has been periodically forgotten and must be periodically reclaimed.”
An explanation why works like Alice Miller’s aren’t translated to Swedish today?
Herman also writes according to World People’s Blog:
“Diagnostic Mislabeling: The tendency to blame the victim has strongly influenced the direction of psychological inquiry.
It has led researchers and clinicians to seek an explanation for the perpetrator’s crimes in the character of the victim. In the case of hostages and prisoners of war, numerous attempts to find supposed personality defects that predisposed captives to 'brainwashing' have yielded few consistent results.”
In the article “Yes, to authors wanting to narrate” in a local newspaper here in Sweden you can read that last Saturday seven younger authors came with a manifest saying that they wanted to make alive and speed up the Swedish prose. They promise that they won’t write detective stories, chic lit-books or do language laboratory experiments for a small circle of language and form interested readers.
Their models were listed in a quite long list of Swedish authors like Selma Lagerlöf, Moa Martinsson, Vilhem Moberg, Karin Boye, Stig Dagerman, Eyvind Johnson, Kerstin Ekman, Elsie Johansson and Inger Alfvén.
They are trying to start a debate about imaginative (pure) literature.
The author of the article writes that he thinks the monstrous boom, lacking all portions, of the detective story literature in Sweden coincides with that the welfare in its original form is dissolved today.
The need for heroes and heroines has never been greater he thinks. And he writes that the evil is always the unknown (concerning the enormous interest in detective stories, see earlier postings on evilness; Miller's and Ingeborg Bosch's view on this for instance). Each new screen version of Beck and Wallander is adding to the prejudices about scoundrels from Balkan and East Europe.
The publishing firms are governed foremost by economies demanding fast profits. The number of serious authors has decreased. There is no longer any room for gentle author souls to slowly mature for bearing fruit in, let’s say, ten years. But so far as to criticizing the publishers’ publication policy no one of the authors of the manifest wants to stretch her/himself. Or even discuss the commercialism’s deep injurious effects on the art of literature.
The quality literature you find in the small publishers…
Yes, why do we need heroes or heroines and scoundrels? Somebody to look up on and somebody to have as scapegoat?
Corporal punishment prohibited in schools and the home (green) Corporal punishment prohibited in schools only (blue) Corporal punishment not prohibited (red)
Read “What doesn't kill you makes you stronger: true or false? A discussion of the effects of child abuse” by Sarah Eberhardt and also read about corporal punishment in Europe and USA.
Anja on the blog “Do nothing day” writes that people trying to do something about inconveniences in the society are portrayed as bad people in media.
Think about labor union blockades; think demonstrating young people, think house occupants, think animal rights activists. Are you feeling “civil disobedience– brave!” or do you feel “criminality”? And who have in that case fed you with those associations?
She also wonders if all peoples' voices are heard, the poor peoples’ for instance…
And concludes yes, there are so many voices that are never heard.
My addition: some are silenced too. Whose? How come?
And whose voices are head? Who are screaming loudest? And who don't have to scream at all? Because they are listened to and respected anyway? In some cases deservedly of course.
Are we going to need more and more gated communities here and there in the world?
Miller is right: you CAN demonstrate without using violence or without destroying material things either.
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