My thoughts are at the moment “inspired” by a blog of a swedish politician who was upset by some other politicians (don´t want to go into details) who did not dress and perform according to the code of behaviour in the swedish parliament. Instead of wearing black suit, he had jeans and instead of standing and singing Kings song he was sitting and not singing. And I realized that this behaviour would never make me write a blog and being upset. I would not give it even a thought.
And I ask myself why? Is it cause I do not care?
And the answer is YES. I do not care for state symbols, I do not care for rituals and I think that those who want to follow them, might do that as much as they wish but there is nothing bad about not doing so. Just try to imagine: An anthem is played/sang and all people are sitting instead of standing. Some people even eating some hotdog or smth. What happens? Nothing. The world spins as it has done before, the rain falls, the flowers bloom and the sun rises up again.
I think instead of all the codes of act for various ceremonies etc, we should be more eager at following simple rules of treating our plant nice – like trash only to trash bins, switching of electricity when it is not needed, saving water. And instead of showing respect by being dressed in a cerain way, I think we could practice solidarity much more often and care for each other in the cases that actually matter.
You know, the parliamentarians in Slovakia (I can’t speak for Sweden really) are often dressed correct. But how much do they actually do? So for me the results of politics are more relevant than the costumes the politics is done in.
This actually runs pretty close to my essay against political correctness and I agree with you wholeheartedly. Now I REALLY hope I’ll finish that darn paper soon!