What is the similarity between a full head at a company party and the new cooperation between governments? Both are sacred anomalies. A deviation, a feature which does not fit into, but an element that also creates positive energy and cohesion.
Sweden has a new government and a new political cooperation. A blocköverskridande anomaly.
Marriage, hypocrites, lightweights. The criticism is fierce from both the right and the left. The agreement between the social democrats, the Greens, the Left party, the Centre party and the Liberals, upsets many.
surprising. Anomalies, the abnormal, are handled mostly by reduced, be repelled and rejected. But the new political governance is not just an anomaly. It is a sacred one.
the cultural anthropologist Mary Douglas coining in his book ”Purity and danger”, the concept of “sacred anomaly.” It is a combination of the anomalous and the sacred. A combination of discord and harmony, of dirt and purity, of disorder and order.
An anomaly becomes holy when it connects it is safe to do, when it violates a society’s basic cultural klassificeringsscheman, but generates cohesion and positive force in the place of that rejected.
in a usually strict workplace. As a januariavtal between the previous fiendepartier. The holy anomaly ‘ forces to the reflections and approaches of what had previously been forbidden.
the Experience of ambiguity, which the holy anomaly ‘ creates, is ambivalence. And is there any feeling that has been significant to the outcome of the eftervalsdebatten it is ambivalence.
An anomaly is perceived as a danger because it threatens the order as we know it. The cross cultural internal and external boundaries, physical and social dividing lines.
the new policy of cooperation, possess, in their degree of danger is also a major force. Controlled the can be exploited positively. Are welcomed it can lead to progress. Involved, it, rather than rejected, it can bring fundamental changes in a society’s general, common, beliefs.
Former notions of blocktillhörighet, on the right and the left, on the gal–tan scale and on the blue, green and red ends to apply. The holy anomaly’, cooperation between governments, is an opportunity for new thinking, innovation and policy development.
When something is perceived as an anomaly becomes the outline more clearly in the categories to which the element does not belong. When something does not fit, it becomes more important to define what it is that they do not fit in.
and the dividing lines are reinforced between us and them. Anomalins opponent will fight to keep it off in order to point out its abnormalitet, non-belonging and a lack of raison d’être.
Marriage, hypocrites, lightweights. A natural reaction but a reactionary in a progressive political climate. Accept and involve or reduce and reject?
A holy anomaly is a deviation, which, despite its lack of natural space creates positive energy and cohesion. It is an anomaly that unites the incompatible. The right and left, blue and red, socialists and liberals. Motsättningarnas association, a psychologically satisfactory. Managed the creation of new categories. Cultural progress, political development.
The so-called januariavtalet and the new political cooperation is the holy grail of the anomaly that american policy needs. An initial disorder in a new order. The beginning of a political paradigm shift.
