This is a joke. The author is responsible for the opinions expressed in the text.
Do you dream of your own island? The question comes via email from the large housing construction site. For a moment I thought it was the most surreal ad of the month.
Then I read about Visit Sweden’s new “Your Swedish Island” campaign. There, international tourists can compete for the right to use their own Swedish island for a year.
To promote nature tourism, five uninhabited small destinations will be raffled off, managed by the Norwegian Real Estate Agency. The competition is open to foreign citizens aged 18 and over. The country with the most islands in the world – 267,570 – is to be marketed as a unique and exotic travel destination. Billionaires don’t care. The campaign aims to redefine the view of luxury, from material things to seclusion and nature experiences.
In a new global opinion poll According to Yougov, almost half of those surveyed would be happy to escape the crowds and stay on their own island. One in seven would use the island to escape the boss. Almost one in five Germans and French people would like to take a break from their partner.
Yes.
Personally, I spend winter nights watching documentaries about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his girlfriend and fixer Ghislaine Maxwell. He was found dead in his cell. She was sentenced to twenty years in prison.
There were numerous attacks on Little Saint James – the financier’s private island in the US Virgin Islands. Hell in the Caribbean paradise. When the US Department of Justice released the latest documents from the Epstein investigation last winter, the shock wave reached the Nordic countries as well as the Norwegian royal family and top diplomats. Few things are considered as serious as a visit to the financier’s secluded retreat.
“Are we living in Epstein’s era?” asks a journalist from the renowned magazine The New Yorker. He compares the sex scandals of the last few decades, from abuse in the Catholic Church to Metoo, with the conservative political scientist Samuel P. Huntington’s ideas about elitist “Davos men” and the collective consciousness of the Internet.
An apartment ad and I think of Little Saint James.
But to answer the question: No, I’m not dreaming of my own island right now. I dream of the Swedish Allemansrätten and its limited homeland peace zone.
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