Tuesday 5 July 2011

JP about Jantelagen

Instead of sugar in my early morning cuppa tea I read Jönköpings Posten.
It is, like sugar in the tea, totally unnecessary for survival and/or for happiness.
And RARELY is there something written that strikes me as truly to the point. The editorial from vecka 23 is one such piece of intelligent comment.
In a concise manner Mats Ottosson, redaktionschef, writes about Jantelagen, the infamous unwritten law that rules local daily life and throttles everything that is remotely innovative, creative, entrepreneurial.
Why? the innocent and ignorant bystander may ask.....Well, innate insecurity, a genetic predisposed inferiority complex, incapability to acknowledge the fact that others are simply better in this or that.
Something that a self confident person would have zero problem to admit.