Masters of Insanity

Wow, two posts in one week, that was a long time ago since that happened. Anyway, I haven't written much about Sweden or what's happening here, since it doesn't appear to happen anything. Till now that is, and that is not in a good way. During this summer there was five professors or what ever they called themselves that published an article that talked about the necessity to take away the car since it didn't serve any purpose and was just a luxury product. Now, I don't have a car nor do I have a drivers license, but that doesn't mean I understand the importance of having one. The professors (from Karlstad and Umeå, both middle size swedish towns) argue that because the car is an luxury product (they call it that since people have the audacity to want cars that don't just have the bear minimum of performance) those should be forced to settle in a more "strategic position" and everyone else should pay to subsidize the public transportation. More that we already does. I have before written how I as a kid traveled 12 years with the school bus, but what I probably didn't mention was that during the last 3 years my parents had to drive me to the bus since it would take 1 hour to walk or you could go up an hour earlier to catch a connecting bus, then wait till the school bus. F*** public transportation. If that wasn't enough, these people actually argued that the politicians should, without the public support (which they knew they didn't have), force this change upon the people. Nice view on democracy. Anyway, after being more or less hacked to pieces by the public (except some supporters) they changed tactic and now talked about it being more by choice. Of course me and everyone else now know to never trust these five or their organization when it comes to solutions at all since behind them hides the dark face of oppression and despotism to serve their warped ideas of a utopia.

That was that some people thought and we wouldn't here some stupid things from Karlstad and Umeå University, but what happens? Umeå is at it again but not concerning traffic-dictatorship. Now it's some warped orwellian speak about men being healthier when being home more often from work. WTF??? How? How does one comprehend this? It's utter nonsense? Why? Well, we could give benefit of doubt by arguing that the journalist in question didn't quite get it right, if we had had some comments below the article I'm sure someone would have pointed it out, but we don't. Also, the whole thing was about men gaining from a more equal work environment. If that means getting weaker health I might just pass on it. The professor herself argues that it's because men now take sick-leave due to colds compared to before when they still went to work. And then we have those who see no fault in this logic and begin talking about men are no longer that macho at their work environment. If going to work when having a cold is macho my macho-meter probably turned itself to badass, cause I never had missed a day of school or work due to some little cold (except that one time when it coincide with the ordinary german teacher being out of town and that class would turn into a zoo).