A culture of dessolation

The excellent and noted bloger Dick Erixon comments the sentence of Anna Odell, infamous for the faked psychosis as an examwork of artschool, Konstfack. As Erixon writes, it is a victory for civilised vallues that a Swedish court could muster enough spine to convict Ms. Odell for the charges against her. Among which was violent resitance when brought to hospital. It was a quite lenient sentence, a fine equivalent of 50 days of work with a normal Swedish sallary, considering the abuse of much needed health resources.

Erixon is spot on in his assesment that this is still a victory for civilisation, against the culture of dessolation that the political left has been nuturing for all to many years in Sweden and the West. Me, naming it as a culture of dessolation, is because of the stated aim of questioning, eroding and finally dissolving the norms of society, that took hundreds of years to build. Erixon notes that, that type of society is a society where there are no trust and confidence in your neighbor and people suspects each other, instead of working with confidence towards a greater good of all and one's familly.

At the root of this bizare cultural landscape, Sweden is bestowed with, is the harmfull notion that the best provider with grants to art education and artist's are the state. If money comes from another direction, well then, you have become a sellout, you're comercial! In the leftist, Marxist influenced, cultural climate that has had Sweden in a stranglehold for so many years; that is probably the worst acusation an artist can recieve. But, why are the state such a neutral provider of grants? Is just a coinsidence that so many Swedish artists are lefist and that the political party dominating Sweden for the last 70 years are a socialist party? Or are there a connection? You do the math!

If Sweden weren't such a hurt country by over-taxation, there would be a lot more room for several different contributors to the Swedish culture. As it stands now, its the major companies and the state that have the funds to support art and culture and when it comes to the state, its the taxpayers money they are dooling out to the artschool's, like Konstfack, so their pupils can abuse rescue personel or go trashing sub-way cars as an art-project. Would these people, desiding at Konstfack, think it would be art if somebody would trash their home, record while doing it and put it on display at an exhibition? I think not!

If the government would stop viewing its populations income as theirs, with which they give us allowances, it might result in a climate where more people would have the abillities to support culture. I think Erixon is correct in stating that the culture in a society isn't richer than the amount of sponsors that can finance the said culture.

As a sad reminder of the bizare leftist-culture in Sweden, is the article in the Swedish major conservative newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, by two rellatives to people who's been treated by Swedish psychiatric care. One of their points, among many questionable, is that Ms. Odell has showed that people with psychiatric illnesses can come back to a normal life. Why? But, Ms. Odell came back, you see and by that she gives hope to the ill. And, further, she shows that art can still be a transforming force in society. It's a sad state, indeed, that we live in!

Link's to Erixons articles (in Swedish):

http://erixon.com/blogg/2009/08/konstfack-anna-falld-en-seger-for-civilisationen/

http://erixon.com/blogg/2009/08/goran-hagglund-politisering-har-utarmat-kulturen/

Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish):

http://www.svd.se/opinion/brannpunkt/artikel_3400321.svd