Don't know if this is the right place for this or not but here goes. Today three people from The Swedish Academy left their work in protest against a decision concerning their involvement and degree of guilt in a person accused of sexual harassment. That person is married to a member of the Academy and has received money, grants and unlawful privileges to his ties with the academy. For the academy to work its statutes demand that at a minimum 12 people are involved or it loses its right to make decisions and in practicality cease to function. It has 18 members elected, also according to the statutes, for life. Earlier members had resigned in the wake of the Rushdie affair. They are still living so are technically members though they dont do any work. Today three more chose to withdraw because of the scandal and how, in their view, the academy has put personal friendships before both personal integrity and the academys integrity and rules and they say they cant support or be a part of an institution that acts in that way. Now its down to 13 working members and if one more decide to leave it might be the end. if two more goes it is definitely the end. Then they cant make decisions. The last Nobelprize has been awarded if this scenario plays out. A lot of cultural grants will not be paid out because the power to make decisions about them are not there anymore. Who, to get them? How much? and so on. And since it is a fund the government cant go in and establish order. It isn't private either so the solution, if there is one, must come from the 13 remaining. The simplest, if its possible i dont know, should be to adjust the statutes to a modern world (after all they were written by Gustav III in ca 1790). Not elect for life but instead until you, because of high age or cooperation difficulties choose not to be a part of the institution. Then they can elect 5 new people and be 18 again.