Nick Drummond 0102
In Sweden we see many children who are very much focused on themselves. The biggest context they are given from our culture and from their parents is: what do you want to do with your life when you grow up, what makes you feel good, what makes you happy? And that is the message that is been given to children that live in cultures like here in Sweden. And what that does is that, coming from a culture which is very focused on the individual, it makes the individual very narcissistic. They are just concerned about themselves. But actually it is a very developed culture that has been able to do that. We are no longer tied to our religious beliefs, we no longer feel that we have to do what the church tells us to do. Sweden has been living in a very postmodern liberal country for at least 40 years now. So it's been very much stuck there. And what it has done is that it has given enormous freedom to individuals to choose what they want to do with their lives, and that's been good. But the backside of it, there is no moral context for them to choose what is right and what is wrong. So because we can't go back to the past to find what we should do we have to turn to something else. And...so many people in Sweden say we need more order and discipline and structure in the schools. But then there are of course many people who don't want to go back to the way schools were 30 or 40 years ago. So what are they going to do? The mainstream way of thinking is that we should look to solutions in the outer world. We need to provide more teachers and resources to the schools. Sweden is already a very wealthy country and uses a lot of resources for education. And still the results seem to be worsening each year. We feel that it is not untill we turn to this inner dimension of consciousness, and the evolution of conciousness, that we are going to be able to develop the sort of solutions that we need.
