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“Grindsamhälle” sounds like “Grindslanten” and despite the fights, that painting is a model of the Swedish idyll. The word “gates” makes Swedes associate with pastures, cows, and noisy fences of well-tended villages. “Gated community”, Yet it sounds menacingly American: underpaid Mexicans, facelifts, and golf bellies. So “gated communities” He had to stay.
Or not then. Surely it has been a long time since you heard the term.
I do not know what happened. Perhaps there were no patrol baton carriers and live fences around selected residential areas. In any case, it is a bit strange, now that Social Group 1, in Stockholm at least, constantly exchanges wandering legends, some of them true, about violent robberies and assaults in the home. Now that we have “preparers” who collect canned food and toilet paper in reinforced rec rooms. The desire to shut up should have increased and at the same time be less embarrassing, compared to true doomsayers.
But I haven’t heard a word about these enclaves.
If you want to be thrown into a strange world, it is enough to accidentally turn on P3.
What was etched in the Swedish soul with the fenced in luxury areas was that some reluctant courage wanted to stand out from the rest. The Swedish social contract allows you to be rich, for the upper class case in general, as long as you mess with it. The price of living a good life is being a little ashamed. Don’t do any of that. But a fence really makes a difference.
There are good and bad sides to that shame, but what I’m beginning to suspect is that the concept “gated communities” drowned in a duel far more capable of, probably, subconscious shame.
The truth is that the Swedes, with the exception of the countryside, already live apart. We are segregated by ethnicity and income, by education and political position. We have a strong age segregation. It seems that an ideological war is being waged to segregate us by gender.
It’s written and talked about about the dark and hidden sides of the web, but why use highly sought after examples of social groups that you never deal with and don’t understand? If you want to be thrown into a strange world, just accidentally activate P3, where rather silly left inflections are considered completely normal. Or take all the newspaper editors who shape their bubble after Twitter, for the simple reason that they and their colleagues belong to the small subculture of seven percent of Swedes who use Twitter on a daily basis, not 93 percent. hundred who don’t.
Bottom line: most of the time we don’t need fences, fences or gates. We continue to create our well-cleaned reserves and skewed perceptions of reality. The progressive journalist’s key to Södermalm is such a tenacious cliché because, in general, it is true. It is one of the self-contained isolates in Sweden. And if you have a shred of insight, it must be a bit ridiculous to live around Mariatorget with your colleagues and like-minded people, most of the same age and with similar backgrounds, and still write annoying articles about “gated communities”.
I think that’s why the concept disappeared. It became embarrassing even for those who wanted to criticize him. Better to talk about something else.
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