Anno 2004, things are pretty okay in Kopparberg, everyone lives on as usual in the little community. But it was soon going to be affected by some heavy attention, Opera På Skäret was its name. As you understand from the name, they built an opera house. Sure, Kopparberg was in dire need of some attention, but from where do you suddenly get the idea to build an opera house in Kopparberg? Firstly, it was some terribly spent money. There is hardly anything to do in Kopparberg and the youth culture is crying for a sign of the slightest care. But as usual in a country like Sweden, the money was given to old people that naught cared for any the youth, but only their own cultural consummation.
You might think I'm talking straight from my ass, but that's not the fact, I assure you. It all started about hundred years ago, with the liberal primeminister Karl Staaf who created the pension, instead of investing in the defense. And that was some daredevil move by him, considering the First World War that was ongoing to the left and right of us. But that's at least how the ageism started. Old people here in Sweden really hate young people and always refer to them as "those younglings". Sure, I bet that's how it is in every country, but here it's extreme. As soon as they get a chance, they talk down on us remorselessly. We tackle it with a laughter, but the fact is that those people are the ones that'll get a say if anyone ever asks them what should change, not the youth. Not the generation that will soon take over.
But back to Opera På Skäret. Which in my opinion was an investment that no young person would have any use of for the closest years. And when people speak about investing in the youth here in Sweden, they speak about meeting houses in which they put 12-16 year olds so that they can stay busy for a while and feel "communion". I say grow up, Sweden. We live in a state (not nation, because a nation needs community) where people turn dead silent as soon as another person walks into the same room and only passes whispers to one other. This country is so badly desocialised that there is no hope for it. Take Finland for example, one starts to speak and even complete strangers could answer, no silence there, no. And I really look up to that, I really wish there was more of that communion here in Sweden. But there isn't, so I wonder why people try to house the youth.
Because really, if it's impossible to feel solidarity and community with others, then there is no reason in investing there. I say, invest in things that will promote the individual, so that everyone can feel inspirational and creative on her own instead of feeling dependant and having to rely on others. The same with tasks in school, why would I want to be put in a group with other people when I can choose for myself whether I'd like to do it on my own or if I'd like to choose my own partner. It's terrible having to rely on someone you don't entirely know, making it stressing and negative in every possible way.
The school also seems more and more "old-friendly" to me for each day that passes. Take the other day for example, it was pure censorship, when we found out that the school has got access to every students email. And that we had to find out on our own, not by a public announcement.
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