Forget hygge, in these negative times we need to fill the air with firgun | Mark Rice-Oxley
by Mark Rice-Oxley from on (#2KVAD)
In this age of neoliberal competition we should all embrace this Hebrew concept of unselfish delight in others, just like rugby's Dylan Hartley
We've had schadenfreude and weltschmerz, ennui and litost. For a while, we were captivated by glasnost and perestroika and more recently it has been all about hygge and lagom.
One of the great things about foreign languages is the words they use for which there is no real translation. Often they tell us what we are missing in the anglophone world. This week there was a new one for me (and probably for you, too) but an idea that our times so badly need.