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Testing Danish Freedom
Last night my friends and I performed a thorough test of our fundamental freedom in Danish society. We were also drunk and quite naked in front of the Danish Parliament.
Let’s be clear from the get-go. My friends and I had been consuming wine in the centre of Copenhagen and having a splendid time. This can also be interpreted as: we were rather inebriated. Earlier in the day, an interview with me was published in a cool, weekly Danish newsletter called Morgenposten wherein I was asked some questions about “Me and my City”. One of the questions was, “What should Copenhagen export to the whole world?”
My answer was this:
Something so simple and fundamental but also diffuse as: freedom. The freedom to hop naked in the harbour or the sea. To ride your bike home a little bit too drunk. To say yes and no. To enjoy the darkest humour in the world without limits like “too soon” or “too much”. To be exactly who you are. To travel out in the world and return home with that “fuck, it is SO nice to be back in Copenhagen” feeling — every single time. To enjoy mutual respect and trust. Freedoms that the Nordic Model and a healthy work-life balance give to us. It still a work in progress, but I feel at any given moment more free in Copenhagen than anywhere else in the world.
