This conceptualizes the nightmare of collectivist Swedish society AKA “the Ant Society”:

• You’re not to think you are anything special
• You’re not to think you are as good as us
• You’re not to think you are smarter than us
• You’re not to convince yourself that you are better than us
• You’re not to think you know more than us
• You’re not to think you are more important than us
• You’re not to think you are good at anything
• You’re not to laugh at us
• You’re not to think anyone cares about you
• You’re not to think you can teach us anything

With each new series of The Apprentice comes another epic salvo of boasting and braggadocio. This Anglo-American approach to “bigging up” your skills and successes is a far cry from how things are done across the North Sea in Scandinavia.

“When it comes to sales, I’m the best,” says Natalie Panayi, one of this year’s contestants on the British version of The Apprentice.

“I just feel my effortless superiority will take me all the way,” confides fellow contestant Jason Leech.

They’re already much in the manner of boasters from previous years. In series four, Jenny Maguire blurted out: “I rate myself as the best salesperson in Europe.” In series five, Majid Nagra said: “I was born to do great things.”

Many of the boasts are eye-wateringly idiotic, a guilty pleasure for viewers who wish to see hubristic young know-it-alls taken down a peg or two.

But while The Apprentice bragging may be a stereotype – and sometimes seems a scripted stereotype at that – they are a magnification of a real factor in society.

Many British people used to think of Americans as more prone to brashly selling themselves and their achievements. Now it’s hard to argue that the UK and US aren’t closer in ethos.

But in Scandinavia it is a very different kettle of dried fish. There they have the Law of Jante, a way of describing the custom – which draws its modern name from a novel of 1933 by Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose – that forbids individuals emphasising their own success over that of the group.

“There is no question that it is invoked a great deal here,” says Lars Tragardh, a historian born and based in Sweden, but who lived for several decades in the US. “People like to suggest it’s part of the Nordic mentality.

“It has more to do with egalitarian ethos rather than a collectivist ethos. It is about not bragging or projecting yourself in a flamboyant way.”

The Law of Jante normally comes into play when people are asked: “What do you do?”

“When I was in the States, starting a business in computer animation, I would be asked, ‘What are you doing?’ and answer, ‘I have my own business’.

“There the reaction would be to view that as great. That’s what you do – in some ways, the ultimate expression of self-confidence. In Sweden, the reaction would be much more suspicious. ‘Do you think you are better than regular workers?’ ”

Another person with experience of the gulf in responses is US-born David Landes, editor of the Local, an English-language Swedish website, and resident in the country for 10 years.

“‘What do you do?’ is one of the first questions in America. It isn’t always at the top of the list in Sweden,” he says.

Tragardh, a contributor to the Nordic Way paper delivered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, puts the mania for modesty down to Scandinavia’s unique history.

“Kings were in alliance with a free peasantry. These cultures were profoundly egalitarian. They abhorred the claims of superiority that tended to be the hallmark of the aristocracy.

“The peasant communities had a distaste for flamboyant expressions of individuality, specialness or uniqueness.” Thus the custom grew.

“You shouldn’t believe you are more than you are. This attitude, in a way, we have in our social DNA,” says Robert Mellberg, a tech entrepreneur behind social video site VideofyMe.

But in the modern Scandinavian business environment, attitudes are shifting, particularly among young people.

“It was our idea to create a homogenous population,” says Mellberg. “Now we have a new generation and a post-industrial society. We are more capitalistic.”

For those in the world of finance or in tech start-ups it doesn’t do to be too circumspect about one’s personal achievements.

“If you are in a situation where you are trying to sell a concept to a venture capitalist you best be persuasive that you are different and have a special idea that justifies a couple of millions of dollar of investment,” says Tragardh.

The rise of Facebook and Twitter has also encouraged change in Scandinavia.

“Social media is about bragging,” says Mellberg. “It is about telling people how brilliant you are through pictures and video.”

The Law of Jante is a code of conduct to do with expression rather than an injunction against striving for success, notes Tragardh.

“It isn’t about Swedes or Nordics not being competitive, nor is it about them being individualistic, which I would argue they are far more than Americans or Britons.

“The Nordic model is being celebrated. These are economies that are fiercely competitive and huge global successes.”

But the tendency to be circumspect can make the reading of CVs a bit more nuanced, says Landes.

In reading through job applications, “Swedes are overly modest. They are almost ashamed of their accomplishments. You look at CVs and you can tell when it is an American or a Brit.

“It is different when someone works for a start-up and there is more of a go-getter attitude. If a Swede says something boastful it can be a more powerful thing as a result.”

And even in the UK, the reasoning behind an individual doing the hard sell can be desperation as much as any fundamental cultural tilt towards bragging.

Claire McCartney, of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, says: “The economic climate, the difficult labour market makes people feel they have to sell themselves this way.

“In some roles, like sales, the gift of the gab is important. But people must be able to back their claims up.”

From: AlJazeera.com

With just three per cent of all financial transactions involving cash, country moves to eliminate physical legal tender.

Swedes are among the technologically savvy people on the planet, based on their high rates of use of mobile phones and internet banking.

In fact, only three per cent of all financial transactions in the country are made using cash these days. Even public transport tickets can now be pre-paid using mobile phone technology, and most people use similar services to pay for everything from groceries to major purchases.

Al Jazeera’s Linda Nyberg reports from Stockholm, the Swedish capital.

Article from: aljazeera.com

Is this what “sound” science leads to?

Bread makes you pudgy, lazy and sick! Look into it.

Yet here they are, the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in 1976 telling you to eat 6-8 pieces of bread per day to stay healthy! Ha! How DEEP into the manipulation do you have to be, to accept this kind of vile propaganda by the government?

Also, know that this these billboards in commercialism free Sweden in 76 is funded and “recommended” by the the “bread institute” and the wheat industry. This is evidence of the corporate fascist state was rampant back in the social democrat heaven of ’76.

“Eat more bread!” it says.
“6-8. Won’t make you rounder. Just healthier.”

“The Bread Institute”

Read the rest of the story: here

From: thelocal.se (February 2008)

Sweden has said it will not award damages to two women claiming to have been exploited in a major prostitution scandal in the 1970s.

Chancellor of Justice Göran Lambertz, Sweden’s most senior legal official, said he had no reason to doubt that the women had been exposed to “a large number of sex offences”. But Lambertz also referred in his judgment to the statute of limitations, which imposes a ten year cut-off point for damages claims of this kind.

The women were just 14 years old when the scandal broke in 1976.

The Chancellor of Justice agreed with the women that a more thorough investigation ought to have been carried out at the time. But the failure of the investigation to lead to a prosecution did not constitute “an error on which to base a compensation claim”.

Lambertz also concurred with the women that prosecutors should have pushed harder to have those involved in the scandal convicted for purchasing sexual services from children. But this did not mean the women had a legitimate claim to damages, according to Lambertz.

Prosecutors at the time did not think they would be able to successfully pursue charges against the suspects “and for this reason it was not a serious mistake on the state’s behalf,” wrote Lambertz in his judgment.

Eva Bengtsson, one of the women claiming compensation from the state, said she was not surprised by the decision.

“It was expected, but I plan to keep going with this. I think these men should step forward,” she told news agency TT.

Bengtsson added that the verdict had left her with a sense of disappointment in the justice system.

“There shouldn’t be a statute of limitations for something like this. These men are pedophiles. We were 13 and 14 years old when this happened. It wouldn’t be accepted today,” she said, adding that she would reach a decision on how to press forward with the case after consultation with her lawyer.

The scandal began with a raid on a Stockholm brothel in 1976. In May of that year, the brothel madam, Doris Hopp, was arrested on pimping charges. A police investigation soon revealed that many of Hopp’s customers were well-known politicians.

Lennart Geijer

November 1977 newspaper Dagens Nyheter rocked the foundations of Sweden’s political establishment by publishing allegations citing Justice Minister Lennart Geijer as one of the customers.

The newspaper claimed as its source a report in which chief of police Carl Persson informed Prime Minister Olof Palme of the involvement of politicians in the prostitution scandal.

But Palme vehemently denied the allegations, accusing Dagens Nyheter of aggravated libel. The newspaper was forced into a retreat and two days after the publication Lennart Geijer received an official apology.

It later emerged however that, a few minor details aside, the newspaper’s assertions had in fact been largely correct. Over the years, there has been much speculation regarding the identities of those who made use of the brothel’s services.

At the time of the scandal broke, it was not illegal to pay for sexual services. But the fact that politicians socialized with prostitutes was viewed as a security risk since staff from foreign embassies were also reported to frequent the brothel.

Olof Johansson (in 1991) & Thorbjörn Fälldin

Former Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin and former Centre Party leader Olof Johansson have both previously denied frequenting Doris Hopp’s brothel.

Article from: http://www.thelocal.se/10108/20080226/

Olof Palme Suspected Of Paedophilia
By Jonathan Newton | newtonline.wordpress.com

Olof Palme

…the most hushed-down scandal in Swedish history resurfaced again, and it fills me with such grief. It is a story that is on par with the infamous Belgian paedophile scandal, with the only difference that the cover-up has succeeded in this case.

The scandal in essence is that there is reason to believe that two Swedish Prime ministers during the 1970s, the internationally known Olof Palme, and Thorbjörn Fälldin, were customers at a network of prostitutes which involved underage girls. In other words, should the allegations be true, these men were paedophiles.

And not only them. The investigation – hushed down as it is – involves a long list of top politicians and celebrities of the time. Some 70 names have been mentioned.

The girls, around 14 at the time, have now grown up, and yesterday, they held a press conference where two of them are demanding compensation fron the Swedish state.

But it doesn’t end there. As I have mentioned, there has never been a proper investigation of these matters. Olof Palme lied to the entire Swedish people when he denied that the then head of the Swedish police, Carl Persson, had written to him to inform him that his Minister of Justice, Lennart Geijer, was frequenting prostitutes and could therefore be subject to blackmail – especially since some of the prostitutes were from the Communist bloc. Mr Persson’s note was disclosed in the daily Dagens Nyheter in 1977, but Olof Palme could see from the way the article was written that the paper did not have access to the note itself. Olof Palme very aggressively denied that the note had ever existed and called the whole thing rumours and worse, but in 1991, the note was declassified and confirmed that Mr Geijer was in fact buying sex.

Why Olof Palme put his entire career at stake to lie so blatantly – about something he likely knew was true – remains an enigma; he was murdered in 1986 and took his secrets to his grave. But the fact is that the former prostitutes yesterday repeated that he would hve beneone of their customers. Did he lie in order to protect himself?

Worse still, his Minister of Justice – Mr Geijer – was trying at the time to decriminalise paedophilia (yes, it’s true). Thank God he was stopped, but that further adds to the sleaziness of it all.

Meanwhile, the girls – several of whom have identified top politicians as customers, independently of one another – descended into personal problems and drug abuse, frustrated about the massive cover-up form the establishment. They have never budged one inch from their story; they insist to this day that what they allege is true.

The whole thing has resurfaced from time to time in Sweden, but has just as regularly vanished from the headlines again and led to no repercusisons at all. Only one person has ever been tried and found guilty, Sigvard Hammar, a marginal figure who was a TV journalist as well as a paraplegic and thus less into the circles of power, who also openly admitted abusing underage girls. But he was sentenced for procuring, not for abusing minors.

There is much more to say about this disgusting, nauseating, stomach-turning, sinister, evil, deprave, vicious mess. How Dagens Nyheter’s source, criminologist Leif G W Persson who worked for Carl Persson at the time, found not only his desk but his entire room emptied the day after Dagens Nyheter broke the story. How the cover-up in 1977 was orchestrated by people involving the then Chief Constable of Stockholm, Hans Holmér, the same police officer who later made a complete mess of the murder investigation ofOlof Palme - for whatever reason. How Thorbjörn Fälldin before the Swedish Parliament in 1977 stated that the entire list of suspects must have been false simply because his own name was on it – and how the Swedish nation chose to believe him.

And how an unknown number of young girls had their lives ruined by the men in power that were supposed to provide their ultimate security.

So, will there be a proper investigation this time? At present, it doesn’t seem likely. The story has already been moved to the back pages, and it seems that the whole thing will once again be ground down into the bureaucratic machinery.

Article from: http://newtonline.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/
olof-palme-suspected-of-paedophilia/

Sweden is not back in the “comfortable” 80′s anymore …but in many regards the country and its people haven’t progressed much. Privatization and corporatism has gotten more intense, but the problem that Rollo May “circles” in this excerpt is still a pervasive one: Complacency and hopelessness. The documentary is from 1988.

By Alex Newman | Crisis Magazine

The Kingdom of Sweden has been revered by supporters of big government around the world for decades, cited by statist college professors and policy makers everywhere. It started with the myth that its “socialist” system could simultaneously provide freedom, prosperity, and generous welfare benefits to all. But now, the illusion is beginning to crumble.

The Swedish government has become notorious worldwide in recent years: Its blatant and sometimes brutal suppression of religious freedom, educational liberty, and the traditional family is well known among Western nations. In 2003, the Justice Ministry investigated the Holy Bible for “hate speech.” A few years later, a Christian preacher was sentenced to jail for criticizing homosexuality. Last year, the government passed a law banning homeschooling and religious instruction in so-called free schools. All educational institutions will soon be teaching the government curriculum — including the notion that there is no difference between genders. Examples of the state run amok are near endless.

One recent tragedy exemplifies the government’s attitude: the internationally known case of the Johansson family. Almost two years ago, following years of harassment by the municipal social services, the Johansson family made plans to leave Sweden for good. The government had been pestering the parents about putting their young son, Domenic, into daycare. They refused. Later, instead of enrolling the young boy in government school, the parents decided to educate Domenic at home until they left for India, the mother’s homeland. Homeschooling was — despite draconian restrictions — still legal in Sweden, after all.

But as they were sitting on the plane, just minutes before takeoff, armed police stormed onboard and seized the then-seven-year-old boy. There was no warrant, no suspicion of physical abuse — just an angry social-service bureaucracy that couldn’t stand the thought of the Johansson family escaping its iron fist. After the family was torn apart over the education matter, the government also made an issue about the boy’s not having received all of his optional vaccines. On top of that, a pair of baby-tooth cavities the family had scheduled an appointment to treat in India were also later included in the allegations against them.

Now, years and countless court hearings later, the family is still separated. An appeal in Stockholm on May 11 drew some protesters and countless letters of support from advocates around the world, but the government won’t budge. The involvement of half-a-dozen high-profile organizations in Scandinavia and elsewhere on behalf of the family has not helped, either.

The parents were unable to attend the most recent hearing due to health concerns: The mother, Annie Johansson, was so traumatized by the tragedy that she’s been hospitalized at least six times since then. They worried that if they showed up and had any sort of breakdown, the government would use it as more evidence that they were not competent to parent their child. It was just as well they didn’t come: According to numerous attendees, the court proceeding was a charade. They were kicked out after ten minutes so the proceeding could continue behind closed doors. The Johansen’s were represented by an appointed court attorney, despite their protests.

Supporters of the family did come out. With time, more Swedish people are becoming aware of what is going on in their country, despite a virtual media blackout. As the clampdown accelerates, Swedes are speaking out. Jonas Himmelstrand, the president of the Swedish Home Education Association and the founder of the family-policy think tank Mireja Institute, has been traveling the world warning of the dangers of Swedish family and education policies. In the last year he’s been to Portugal, Belgium, Italy, Canada, Hungary, and more — sometimes invited by government. Soon he will be sounding the alarm at the United Nations in New York.

“You have to see [the attack on homeschooling] in the broader scope of the view of family in Sweden,” Himmelstrand toldCrisis Magazine, citing the state daycare system that now cares for more than 90 percent of children older than 18 months. “Our government has basically taken on the role of child-rearing to a certain extent.” He also noted that Swedish schools are under heavy criticism for producing poor results, both socially and academically — which may lead more parents to discover how successful homeschooling actually is.

The Domenic Johansson case, while not unique in Sweden, has homeschoolers in particular very worried. “This is a case which seems incomprehensible to many Swedes,” Himmelstrand explained, noting that he understood why it would lead to protests. “It’s not the only case where the social authorities have done something which seems to lack all sense and all humanity.”

He said one of the most alarming elements of the Johansson case is that homeschooling and not attending daycare were used as a justification to seize the child in an earlier verdict. The government alleged it had somehow damaged the boy — a claim for which there is, “of course, absolutely no proof whatsoever,” Himmelstrand noted. “That’s the scary part: We have social authorities who cannot seem to understand sometimes what a healthy family is.” The whole case is “a tragedy” and something that is “very upsetting to Swedish homeschoolers,” Himmelstrand concluded.

Pro-freedom advocates in Sweden agree. And the case is indicative of a much more troubling trend. “I think the Domenic case very well illustrates the Swedish government attitude against individual freedom,” explained Joakim Fagerström, a father and the president of the liberty-minded Ludwig von Mises Institute in Sweden. “The reason for this is that it is very important to keep the kids in government-run schools, since this is where you put the foundation for our statist minds. Even the government in Sweden understands that they can’t just use pure force to make the citizens to do what they want –and that is why education is so important to form our kids to be statist to the core.”

Fagerström added that the long-term consequences of Sweden’s approach would not be good, noting that the quality of its government-run schools was getting worse every year. “I am afraid that this trend is accelerating,” he said. “Of course, our goal is to reverse this trend by educating people on the benefits of individual freedom.” That, as he freely admits, will be a long and tough process — especially considering Swedish society’s general apathy on issues of liberty.

But people who have had bad experiences with the social services are also speaking out. Daniel Hammarberg, for example, compiled a book called The Madhouse, which details some of the more outrageous and well-known scandals to rock Sweden, such as the Domenic case. “It definitely proves that the state considers children its property, especially when they seize the boy just as they’re about to leave,” he told Crisis. “It also shows that they don’t care about international law and verdicts from the European Court of Human Rights, which state that you can’t remove children just because you feel they’d be better off in another home.”

Asked about why the government pursued the Johansson family with such vigor, he said “a single intact family standing up and protesting might inspire the whole lot of society to follow them. So they have to make sure they get to indoctrinate every single child.” Like many others knowledgeable about the barely disguised “growing totalitarianism,” as Hammarberg put it, he also explained that government agencies are generally very suspicious of religious parents. “There’s a strong anti-religious atmosphere here,” he noted. The Johanssons, of course, call themselves devout Christians — a very rare phenomenon in secular Sweden.

Attorney Mike Donnelly, the director of international affairs for the U.S.-based Home School Legal Defense Association, has been one of the prominent American voices speaking out about the Johansson tragedy and the overall attack on homeschooling and educational liberty in Sweden. “The treatment Domenic Johansson and his family have received from Swedish authorities is deplorable,” he said. “As a government, Sweden should be ashamed. Its policies toward families and particularly homeschoolers are completely at odds with the values acknowledged by western democracies — specifically the right of parents to direct their children’s education.”

Donnelly referred to the nation’s “reprehensible” approach to education as “increasingly totalitarian.” He’s even ranked Sweden at or near the bottom internationally in terms of educational freedom, in the company of ruthless dictatorships like North Korea and communist China. The HSLDA is one of the organizations — along with the Alliance Defense Fund and others — involved in appealing the Johansson case to a European-level court.

The Domenic case and another similar tragedy where a family was ripped apart over homeschooling, combined with Sweden’s upcoming ban on alternative education, has provoked a furor overseas. The last Western country to try to ban home education was Nazi Germany. But even in the Nordic kingdom, where people traditionally have a great deal of trust in authorities, the consequences are beginning to show. Numerous families have already fled, going to places like Canada, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, among others. Many more will emigrate once the prohibition on homeschooling goes into effect this summer. Some are even seeking refugee status to avoid the growing persecution of homeschooling families.

Where the Swedish saga will end remains to be seen. Sweden has made some uneven moves toward liberty. The welfare state has been reduced in size and scope in many areas; just a few decades ago, the government even ran a fast-food chain. Some industries are gradually being privatized, too. But even though the immense tax burden has been declining over the last ten years, there’s still a long way to go. And in terms of religious and educational freedom, the trends are troubling.

Source: http://www.crisismagazine.com/2011/swedens-big-government-utopia-unmasked

Happy Easter everyone! It’s spring time:

Went for a drive in the blizzard!

The weather is something that everyone complains about. It’s hardly one of the distinguishing points that I’d like to place high up my list of “important” issue to address regarding the detrimental things I see about this country …but let me tell you, it certainly is a “force multiplier”.

Going out in a blizzard when it SHOULD be happy Easter bunny spring time doesn’t make things easier! Especially after a long day “together” with crowds of uncourteous, stressed and tense Swedes at the mall, trying to find something of quality among the high priced yet cheaply imported Chinese goods. You get NO service and more annoyingly: shopkeepers can’t answer a SINGLE questions about the products they have in the stores they work in. “Öh, jag vet inte!Ja, eller…”

The weather sucks! I understand why the weather it’s a big reason many Swedes decide to leave the country.

You know you’ve been in Sweden too long when…

5. When a stranger on the street smiles at you, you assume:
a: he is drunk
b: he is insane
c: he’s an American

57. Having to book seat numbers at a cinema makes perfect sense. And you sit in your booked seat even if there are only 2 other people there and your seat is in the front row, on the side.

64. You think nothing of paying $50 for a bottle of ‘cheap’ spirits at systembolaget

79. You spend the week’s entertainment budget on a pack of cigarettes and a drink in Gamla Stan.

80. When a stranger asks you a question in the streets, you think it’s normal to just keep walking, saying nothing.

83. You and your friends know exactly the same information, and have the same attitudes and beliefs in the value of Social Democracy.

85. You think that if you smoke a joint you will wind up in an insane asylum. [or become a habitual criminal]

94. You don’t question the concept of ‘telephone time’. It seems reasonable that no business can be conducted on Friday afternoons. [or the entire month of July]

95. You assume that anyone who apologises after bumping into you is a tourist.

96. You feel discomfort if you can’t find the nummerlap machine.

101. Paying $6 for a cup of coffee seems reasonable.

119. You think it entirely reasonable to pay $40 for a five minute chat with the doctor.

121. You think it is normal EVERYTHING is regulated and you obey the rules voluntarily.

124. You accept that you will get parking tickets regularly and stop caring that you have no idea what was wrong with your parking.

144. You will squeeze past somebody rather than say excuse me.

156. You pay the TV-avgift because you think you’re getting your money’s worth watching SVT.

157. You start looking at socialbidrag (welfare) less as an absolutely desperate last resort and more as a way of life.

165. You start believing that good service is overrated.

168. You take two hour naps at work and the idea of losing your job never crosses your mind.

169. You don’t even get surprised when the doctor, not only can’t help you, he/she can’t even diagnose you.

211. You think that the 25kr ICA bonus cheque is generous after spending 2500kr in their shop.

216. It seems normal to you that you’ve been bleeding in the emergency room at the hospital for four and a half hours when the three doctors walk by on their third coffee break since you got there.

236. A 25 % sales tax on just about everything is no big deal.

249. You’ve come to accept that customer service departments don’t do anything to help customers.

250. If you meet someone you haven’t seen in ages you just stay right where you are chatting away even if that happens to be in the doorway of a very busy department store.

255. You don’t find it strange that they add tax on top of the taxes.

276. You no longer feel it’s unbearable inside an over-heated shop wearing full winter gear.

277. You no longer look for toilets marked specifically male or female

278. You remember to buy the weekend grog supply before 5.00pm on Friday

282. You agree to pay 500kr for a basic hair trim.

283. You accept that fruit juice is always made from concentrate.

290. You either run for the last pendeltåg at 1 am or choose to party on until 5 am when they start again rather than endure the horrific night bus home, as a taxi ride would require taking out a 2nd mortgage.

304. Swedes saying Va’ to you is still annoying (even after ten years), not to mention that there is no real word for please, or?

311. You accept that any bureaucratic employee is incapable of a single autonomous thought and that anything, regardless of how ludicrous, is law once committed to paper.

340. Drinking is the fundamental pillar of your social network, be it coffee or alcohol.

346. You automatically try to dress the same as everyone else.

355. And paying $800,000 for a 3 room (living room, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen) house in a suburb of Stockholm seems cheap.

360. When you are terrified of meeting you neighbour in the stairwell.

367. You think is perfectly normal that nobody talks on the bus, train or tunnelbana.

368. You accept that people talk to you only when they are really drunk.

369. You accept that the best answer for a question is always “Jag vet inte” meaning “I don’t know”.

371. You accept the fact that to rent an apartment you have to wait in the queue for 5 years.

406. You’re not surprised anymore when hearing about an old petrol station being turned into a mosque.

All of them here:

http://www.australiansabroad.com/sweden/youknow.html

I had this poster in my room as a very young boy:

I never knew what it meant or where it came from.

I thought it was strange – but funny and “important” for some reason.

I didn’t know what S.P.Q.R. was.

It wasn’t until many years later that it dawned on me …I was identifying with the one spitting out the milk.

I don’t know if it’s Romulus or Remus, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is that you’re the one who has rejected the milk of the wolf.

I view the milk and the teet as meaning being the centralized flow of “nourishment” that they want to make you dependent on. SPQR with its milk of a wolf, the milk of a beast – will poison you. It’s all wrong.

Imperial Rome and Collectivist Christianity might seems as a contradiction at first, but it isn’t if you think about it for a while.

Rome making one out of many. Just like the meaning of the fasces, from where we get the word fascism.

Rome, after all came with the red banner of uniformity. Imposing their mono-culture on every native and diverse culture that existed in the territories that they conquered. Rome had NOTHING, except a brutality that was so foreign to those that they conquered that it was impossible for them to tactically understand, combat and resists it. Nothing from this world could understand it. The reasons were alien, the tactics satanic and the intention demonic.

Sweden is Rome – Rome is Sweden. Europe has certainly carried on the tradition and they took it with them to the United States. It’s the same imperial system. It’s alive and kicking. Rome never fell – it reformed.

It has just just moved from the physical to the metaphysical. From the body to the mind. They have indeed colonized the mind of their subjects. and nowhere is it more evident then in the land of the midnight sun.

Have a look at this short list of complaints by an American who’s “Lost in Stockholm”.

They are mundane everyday kind of observations that doesn’t get close to the core of WHY things have turned out this way …but that’s fine. At least the person is EXPRESSING their dissatisfaction! It’s, as usual, done by a foreigner who actually has a frame of reference and has something to compare with. Most of these observations I would argue are very true and consequently should be very depressing for Swedes who still are living in the delusion that Sweden is an “OK” country. Sweden is worse then mediocre, it’s actually really REALLY bad! If you haven’t noticed, you’re not paying close enough attention.

http://lostinstockholm.com/2011/01/25/more-things-to-hate-about-sweden/

Here is another great source that the anthropologists should study: http://amplicate.com/hate/sweden

The reason for the “ALL CAPS” and “anger-of-the-moment-bad-spelling” in most of these posts are very likely due to the poor people stuck in this horrible country who are seriously in need of venting some of their pent-up frustration. I completely understand! A genuine social “side effect” after being in Sweden, even only for a short period of time.