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The Paradox of Swedish Happiness: Loneliness as Freedom
This is a real cold joke: When the new crown pneumonia epidemic was raging and the Swedish government required people to maintain a social distance of 2 meters, the local people were very nervous. Everyone began to discuss when the daily social distance of 5 meters could be restored. Sweden may be the only country where the distance between people has been shortened by the epidemic. How alienated are the Swedes? Statistics show that among the 500,000 migrants of the right age in Sweden, only a quarter of them can find a partner within five years. Swedes have the highest divorce rate in Europe. The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) believes…
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Each man is his own god
For a long, long time, I couldn’t figure out one question: why do people go to horror novels or movies? Why do people create horrors out of nothing to scare themselves? Why does the protagonist of a horror story go to a rather suspicious attic instead of hiding in the safety of his own bed in the dead of night? Can’t we wait until another day? Later, when I grew up a little bit and knew a little bit more about the world, I finally realized: it turns out that the real world is always scarier than stories. The theme of horror stories is not horror, but courage. It helps…
