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Så... Den nya svenska kultur-kanon innehåller sånt som 98% av SD's väljare inte ens kan stava till? Seems legit.
Morten Nielsen (b. Jan. 3, 1922) was a Danish poet who was accidentally shot during a weapons drop-off in 1944. Nielsen had been active in the Danish Resistance movement for some time at that point...
He published one collection of poetry during his short life - Warriors without Weapons (1943) - and his best poem, Øjeblik (Moment) is included in the Danish Cultural Canon. Here is my translation of that poem.
Uppskattar ändå att kulturkanonen hade ett avsnitt för Lag och rätt. Vilket ju osökt för oss till frågan:
vilken är den bästa/roligaste lagen i sammanhanget?
Magnus Erikssons landslag av Kung Magnus Eriksson.
1734 års lag. Beslut i riksdagen och stadfäst av kungen.
1766 års tryckfrihetsförordning. Beslut i riksdagen och stadfäst av kungen.
Offentlighetsprincipen.
1809 års regeringsform. Beslut i riksdagen och stadfäst av kungen.
Rättegångsbalken. Sveriges riksdag.
Europakonventionen. Europarådet.
Brottsbalken. Sveriges riksdag.
1974 års regeringsform. Sveriges riksdag.
Allemansrätten.
It’s 4th of July - Independence Day in the US. In Denmark, this day is celebrated with a rally and pro-US speeches in Rebild Bakker every year, esp. since Denmark provided a fairly large number of immigrants to the land of the free over the centuries.
The US, however, has always had its war mongering ways and is built on the genocide of the Native American population, and left wing theater activist group Solvognen, marked this with a happening in 1976 when the Danish Queen Margrethe was giving the speech. The Danish police chose to escort the activists off the premises - 56 were arrested...
Btw., in 2004 Solvognen became part of the Danish Cultural Canon for their happening “Julemandshæren” from 1974!
There was no notable Danish artist born on this date, as far as I can tell, so we’ll grab a random birthday...
Danish artist and poet, Gustaf Munch-Petersen was born February 18, 1912. He died aged 26 in the Spanish Civil War, having volunteered to fight in the International Corps against the Fascists...
Early on he was associated with the Surrealists and contributed to their exhibitions and publications such as the journal, Linien (The Line). Later he distanced himself a bit from them and became more left-leaning, politically.
Munch-Petersen wrote 4 excellent collections of poetry before his untimely death. He also wrote in Swedish and in English. My translation here is of his perhaps most celebrated poem “det underste land” (gmp always used only lower-case spellings), which is the title poem of his 1933 collection. It is included in the Danish cultural canon - and dedicated to American popular novelist Fannie Hurst...
The poem describes a land underneath Earth, where things are different and more equal than both in Earth and in Heaven - an interesting alternative cosmology. The people in “the lowest land” are more emotional and spiritual than the rest of us, and we should aspire to be more like them...
Also, gmp’s painting Død Mand Drømmer (Dead Man Dreaming), gouache, 1935...
Katarina Taikon: Katitzi (1969)
The newborn cultural canon of sweden, is of course total nonsense in addition to being a mess, but there is something extra about the inclusion of (old) laws.
First off, laws don't come off as obvious inclusions in a cultural canon. You'd expect prose, visual arts, or movies to take priority; works of art. But sure, laws are cultural artifacts, in a broader sense.
As a nationalistic project, the inclusion of laws makes sense; its backers believe that cultural expression and state should be intertwined. Law should control culture, and culture of the majority (or a conservative clique, really) should be encased in law. A cultural canon is a lesser statement, of the state saying "hey these works are cool check them out". But by putting laws in there a further goal is communicated: next up is writing laws to enforce these ideals*.
But what makes less sense to me, is the inclusion of old laws, laws that define the swedish state. Of course national conservatives enjoy the construction of the state – but a reminder of the construction is a reminder that these laws are not eternal! That states are artifice, and not platonic nations! Highlighting Sapmi as a wilderness that is explored, tamed, and occupied/colonized belies the historical existence of sweden-as-is.
... and then I remember "manifest destiny" and feel rather silly. The goal of the nationalist conservative is not to restore a perfect past**, it is to create the nation that has never yet fully existed, but is fated by destiny. How silly of me.
Sorry for taking up your time.
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*of course laws always enforce cultural ideals, by definition. But I hope you get what I mean. Banning Islam and such, oppressing the Sami more, forcing all kids to worship Carl Larsson.
**swedo-atlantian types discounted. I'm sure they exist still and want that.