Thoughts on Sweden

The cultural impact of coming to Sweden is great. You hear in the news and on YouTube about the issues that this country has had to deal with recently and you expect the worst from big cities like Stockholm and Malmö. In the rape statistics, Sweden is at the top, and crime and violence have been rising over the past decade due to the naïve openness that the Swedes have had toward the world. Their ideal of equality led to this result, but the question is whether that same ideal also had something to do with how the country has become so successful and utopian in the last century. And it truly is a utopia; it truly has that feeling of near perfection and efficiency on every level.

Stockholm, the only city I have visited in Sweden, is dominated by a deep spiritual calmness, a tranquility I have never seen in any other big city. People are calm and polite. They are not pedantic, unlike the Germans. You can still see someone crossing on a red light when cars aren’t passing by, and that is the reasonable thing to do once you understand and internalize the logic of the rules. You need to see that they are only indicative of a certain behavior that you are supposed to adopt, which can be flexible depending on the context. You don’t respect a rule for the sake of respecting it; you respect it because you understand its purpose.

As I was walking down the city streets, a thought crossed my mind. I was thinking about the fact that Stockholm’s population is comprised of 25% non-Swedish natives. But the interesting part is that most of these non-natives are not in the city center and the ones you encounter there most probably don’t live in that area. Swedes live in the city center; Swedes inhabit the best part of the city because they are the dominant ethnicity, while immigrants live in certain peripheral residential areas, which have become quite dangerous in recent years. Sweden is leading in the rape statistics, and crime has risen so much that the government is considering to incentivize non-natives to leave the country by offering them 34,000$ to depart voluntarily.

But returning to the structural settlement of the demographics of Stockholm, what we see is a pattern that repeats itself throughout history over and over again. Liberal and social democracy only disguise this pattern; they embellish it with acceptable discourse and soft aesthetics meant to distract from what everyone should actually be seeing: that social and ethnic segregation are still in place, but they are not as obvious as they used to be.

In the past, when one ethnicity would dominate another, the city they inhabited would be structured so that the dominant people would live in the center and the others of different ethnicities would live in peripheral areas. The same phenomenon happens regarding class differences, of course: the rich dominate the center and the poor are pushed out to the periphery. So nothing has fundamentally changed today, not even in the most socially advanced and progressive countries, such as the Scandinavian countries. What we are witnessing is just a natural and hierarchical pattern that cannot be abolished because it is built into human nature. And now the real question is whether this kind of arrangement is morally just or justifiable, or even reasonable. The answer could be quite simple in some sense and just a “yes” would suffice. That's because when you walk down the streets of Stockholm, you realize that this heaven on earth is possible only in this format, only because the Swedes have reached a very high level of development in consciousness, which allowed them to create one of the most efficient societies. Others could try to imitate their model or integrate into their Volksgeist, but no matter what, it is only this Nordic ehtnicity that has produced this kind of society that we know of. Nowhere on the planet can you find anything similar at the moment. This is not to say that other civilizations haven’t produced grand achievements, but the Scandinavian model is so clean, efficient, and peaceful that it seems out of this world in many ways.

You can take a person from another continent, put them in a Scandinavian country, and slowly observe how they adapt to the culture and norms, and you would be misled to think that every ethnicity is able to achieve this because we are dealing primarily with a social construct. But the truth is more controversial than that. The reason this is not so is that if you leave, let’s say, African ethnicities to develop on their own, they won’t generate anything remotely close to what Scandinavian people have produced. This is because their soul dispositions are totally different, and the ideas that are linked to their Volksgeist are of a particular nature that is quite different from that of others.

Now, returning to the situation we find in Stockholm, we can say that the pattern is still holding, that the dialectic is still in favor of the Swedes, and it seems quite promising because they’ve realized that their naïve liberal views can lead to some atrocious and disastrous results.

Meanwhile, in other countries such as the UK, the Hegelian dialectic has come to a full effect and reversal of ethnic dominance. Minorities are dominating the natives, and chaos has spread on the streets of London and Birmingham. This is what happens when most of the basic blue-collar labor is dominated by non-natives. They eventually acquire the awareness that they are the sustaining pillar of the country that hosts them and they subvert the dialectic, gaining dominance and subjugating the natives.

If the Swedes want to continue on their utopian path, they should give up their liberal naïveté and confront the harsh reality of power dynamics, to which they would eventually succumb if they do not take more extreme measures to preserve what they already have.