Crybabies

Swedish television last night played funeral music when breaking the news to viewers that a Swedish cross-country ski team of some sort had failed in the World Championships.
You would think this was a national disaster, and for some people it seems like it is. For me, I wish we would grow up and stop pretending it’s important whether someone born in Sweden or Norway skis the fastest on a given day.
Imagine the inhabitants of Cairo not being able to make it to Tahrir Square because the Arabvision Song Contest was on. Or something similarly trivial.
Revolution will never work in Sweden. We’re too busy sitting in front of the TV listening to funeral tunes because someone we don’t even know skied slower than somebody else we don’t know either.
Can we get some perspective, please?

Photo: Tore Afdal