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One of the most common complains in
Sweden, now at the corona times and before is the pain of
loneliness. In Sweden people often suffer from isolation and
feel lonely. Why, there is one clear aspect, Majority of the
swedes lack strong individual identity, such as an identity
based in relation to nature, to God, to philosophical directions
such as existentialism. The identity based on the collective
which provides sense of life, reason to feel life meaningful.
The bee hive could be a metaphor. A bee is part of a collective,
a “society of bees”. A bee has no individual identity. Single
bee is incapable to live in isolation. Buddhist, Catholic and
many other cultures value monastic life. It is a life in a loose
social connection with the group, in some monasteries one is not
even talking to each other. The aim is to use resources and
teachings provided by the monastery. The goal is an individual,
personal relation with the destiny, God, Gods, divinity or other
spiritual entity or even nature. The community is secondary.
Those cultures encourage development of personal identity. |
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