Beyond the practical and transient problems of the restart, the program is characterized by the two, partly contradictory, goals that constitute the real core of cultural policy: diversity and freedom.
How to achieve more diversity?
And how do you avoid unnecessary control of cultural life?
The Swedish debate on racism and discrimination has in recent years become clearer and more open.
Hopefully, this development will also revitalize the discussion on how to counteract the stubborn character of cultural life of whiteness and the middle class.
This is the classic problem of modern cultural policy - in our time sharpened by an increasingly acute perspective of race / skin color / ethnicity.
Incidentally, it is about the more familiar concepts of class and center-periphery.
The second issue is the freedom of culture
under the cultural policy system.
How much does the system shape the content and execution of the culture?
An issue that has been taboo since the system was created, but which was opened at the end of a critical report from the Swedish Agency for Cultural Analysis last year.
Has culture too often been directed towards general policy change goals?
It has, the report stated abruptly.
For the public cultural sector, it is an above discussion, which seeks its form and its concepts.
Some impulses of denial are noticeable, but it is gratifying that this uncomfortable subject takes place in Folk och Kultur.
At the intersection between the need to steer towards greater diversity, and the need to roll back the casual management towards all kinds of legitimacy - there is the hot zone of cultural policy.