Sweden’s violent reality is undoing a peaceful self-image – POLITICO

Thank you for your courage of speaking out about the horror story that Sweden has become. Although us who live in countries with free press have known about these realities, an article like the one above could be career ending in a socialist-feminist tyranny like Sweden. Although your country is now lost for good, please support the free nations’ rising resistance against Islamisation and forced immigration with your excellent journalism.

Posted on 4/16/18 | 6:51 AM CEST

There’s so much wrong with this opinion piece, I don’t know where to begin. First of all, the government didn’t call Sweden “a humanitarian super power”, and certainly not the opposition, during the spike of the refugee crisis in 2015. The people did. It was an aspiration, not a description. There was an unprecedented support for refugees from Syria then, among the people, not just among a few activists. In fact, it was the establishment, the politicians, that hit the brakes, because they thought that if Sweden stopped taking in refugees from Syria, other countries would step up. Of course, that never happened. Everybody in Sweden knows we’re in no way a perfect country. It’s people from the outside who hold simplistic views about Sweden. We’re not an idea or a projection. We’re a country with ten million people, and a long and diverse history. People on the left in other countries project an utopian image on Sweden, as an equal, social democratic society, because it’s easy for them to do so. They don’t actually care much about Sweden or know much. People on the right in other countries have actively hated Sweden for decades. “Sweden bashing” has been a concept since the late seventies. In recent years, because of the Syrian refugee crisis, and the fact that Sweden took in more Syrian refugees than other countries, Sweden has become the prime target of the international, and not least the American, far right on social media. Both views are simplistic and based on the people’s ideological goals, not any knowledge of Sweden. There’s also an enormous amount of Russian disinformation about Sweden on social media, that tries to portray the country as a failing state. Their aim is to strengthen internal disagreements in Sweden and the Russia-friendly, anti-immigration party “Sverigedemokraterna”, and to generally undermine Sweden internationally. Also, the gang violence has nothing to do with refugees from, for example, Syria. In the last couple of years, a lot of weapons have come in to Sweden from former Yugoslavia, where they were left over from the civil war.

Posted on 4/16/18 | 6:56 AM CEST

It’s a nice try dear, but I’m afraid the cat is out of the bag. I’ve seen any number of YouTube videos by perfectly ordinary, decent Swedish citizens bemoaning the state of affairs in the country and blaming the government for effectively concentrating more on trying to cover the problems up and pretend they don’t exist, instead of tackling them. The SDP just buries their heads in the sand and pretends everything is alright. It’s not – and unless you get tough with those causing the crime and stop being so squeamish about being perceived by the left as somehow being racist for doing so, then your problems are only going to get worse. A country of 60 million can cope to a certain extent with controlling disaffected youth who fail to integrate. A country of only a few million can’t.

Posted on 4/16/18 | 9:33 AM CEST

It’s so sad what has happened in Sweden. It is a lesson to us all in Europe.

Posted on 4/16/18 | 10:25 AM CEST

A few months ago I watched a report on a immigrant a neighbourhood in Sweden.
The Police did not dare to enter. So the mothers of the criminals, dressed with orange scarves, had began to patrol the streets.

In another report I read that Sweden has the second highest percentage of rapes per capita in the world. Just below African Togo.

That shows were leftist naivity can lead to. They have changed their country forever.

Posted on 4/16/18 | 10:50 AM CEST

Sweden evidently badly needs someone like Viktor Orban.
May be Sweden should hire him before it turns into 3rd world s**thole as Swedish politicians don’t seem to be up to the task.

Posted on 4/16/18 | 10:56 AM CEST

“Gang-related gun murders, now mainly a phenomenon among men with immigrant backgrounds in the country’s parallel societies …… Sweden has gone from being a low-crime country to having homicide rates significantly above the Western European average.”

Cultural enrichment of Sweden is proceeding as planned. Germany next. And with open door migration policies, pretty soon the whole of Europe will be balkanized. Call it european integration.

Posted on 4/16/18 | 11:19 AM CEST

@Sean .
“It’s so sad what has happened in Sweden. It is a lesson to us all in Europe.”
If it were only Europe, friend. If only. Cheers.

Posted on 4/16/18 | 11:38 AM CEST

What is wrong with the reporter of these news? I am an expat from Spain, a country with much more violence in suburbs and even in the central parts of the biggest cities, with real no-go zones for police as much as for citizens.
You’re talking about a country that protects, or at least tries to, the totality of its citizens. A country where the national criticism is high, but only because there are reasons to believe that it can improve. A country so advanced in social politics that I, as an example, don’t have to pay for university in opposition to the extreme fares that exist in public universities in my country of origin.
I have lived in one of this supposed “no-go zones” you talk about, and have NEVER had any problem or fear. I fear more crossing the city centre of Barcelona at night than walking around Kista or Rinkeby.
This article is not only biased, but shows a very little number of acts and maximises them to make them a “real” concern, when police spokesmen around the country have said repeated times that these no-go zones don’t exist, that they don’t stop them from making their job and that, even if conflicts are more registered there than anywhere else in the city, the number of times they happen cannot even be compared to what happens in other countries in Europe.
I hope the people that read this article will have a bit of critical judgement and go look for the reality of Sweden, a country where socialism works and has proven to improve the situation of millions of people, no matter what background they come from. This article is just a mere excuse to justify the conservative ideas of an “overpopulation” of Sweden by immigrants (ironically enough, the country is one of the biggest in Europe in extension) and to create a sense of fear that only justifies the American vision of a demonised social democracy. Of course there are policies to be restrained or made in a better way, but the article gives a vision that is so far from reality that is even a bit embarrassing, being a journalist myself.
Oh, and by the way, repeating the fact that “shootings don’t make the news anymore” does not give, in any sense, any checked facts about these shootings. Bad journalism in so many senses.

Posted on 4/16/18 | 12:02 PM CEST

I wonder if Swedes and Germans are not trying to rehabilitate their racist opa’s by becoming these multicultural dystopias. Look everyone our opa’s were right !

Posted on 4/16/18 | 12:09 PM CEST

Article is spot-on !

Sick of biased and “ever-in-denial” messages either from government, swedish newspapers or the many self-proclaimed experts on subject topic. Nowadays, after 8pm, we feel much safer in New York city than in good old Stockholm. Really, if you are not confused what is really happening around you in certain areas in Sweden then you simply don’t understand or need a serious reality check.

Posted on 4/16/18 | 3:08 PM CEST

Sweden still 1000x safer than the UK. A bit of perspective would be helpful.

Posted on 4/16/18 | 4:15 PM CEST

>The topic of crime is sensitive, however, and debate about the issue in the consensus-oriented Scandinavian society is restricted by taboos.

No. The people who accurately describe the reason for the rise in crime are being censored, intimidated and arrested for their speech.

Posted on 4/16/18 | 4:16 PM CEST

As the man said, “Crazy is doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result.”

For decades, Swedes and their government have watched as huge Third World immigration has turned their formerly peaceful, prosperous, coherent culture into something else far less desirable. For all that time, Swedish governments refused to admit the truth, refused to allow honest conversations about immigration, demographics and culture, demonised those who asked tough questions, and kept bringing in the immigrants.

Rather than admit they made a mistake for which Swedes are now paying heavily in the loss of their wonderful country, they are focusing their efforts on a PR campaign to deny the reality.

It was denying reality that got them into this mess in the first place. And yet, they persist.

I hope that Denmark, Norway, and Finland are paying close attention and reducing the levels of immigration from the same places, lest Oslo and Copenhagen turn into Malmo. As it is Aarhus in Denmark is now more like Malmo than Copenhagen.

Demographics ARE culture. Those who refuse to accept this, are doomed to lose their formerly successful cultures.

Posted on 4/16/18 | 5:11 PM CEST

Guys, send this article to Lili Bayer!

Posted on 4/16/18 | 6:14 PM CEST

So, Sweden’s politicians, protected by walls, bunkers and massive security details lie, while the country descends into an orgy of violence and “little” people are raped and murdered.
A grenade attack on a police station and a police car blown up? That’s not violence out of control. Why, not a single politician was harmed.
Large section of Swedish cities where ambulance or fire trucks won’t go? That’s not “no-go” zones; that’s “ethnic festivals”.
Safe, secure, civilized Poland is just across the Baltic.

Posted on 4/16/18 | 8:30 PM CEST

@Gisela Söderberg and @Irene Ramon described best the Sweden I know and, better yet, got to visit several times a year for some 12 years so I could see the changes.
It is a trouble the shootings it happens once in a while in Sweden but there are no such things as no-go zones or rampant crime as described here, at least not at the levels of Germany, France or Poland… Among Scandinavian countries though, yes it is a bit worse in Sweden, but it always has been a bit spikier than Norway or Denmark, it was just no so evident.

What worries me far more than the shootings in Sweden is that people are becoming more polarized and intolerant of each others views; the press have something to do with this.

Posted on 4/16/18 | 8:59 PM CEST

What on earth is the matter with these people? Citizens in all the countries of Europe are watching, utterly horrified at not only what is going on there & in fact, all around them re. immigrant men abusing their host’s hospitality with violent crimes, increasingly against young women, but also why it is being tolerated by governments, police & some sections of the public.
Similar problems are happening wherever these young men are arriving – Germany, Belgium, France etc, with both the behaviour & the responses of police & government just the same – Keep quiet! Don’t make a fuss! Take no notice! ???????????
Sorry but get raped & take no notice? Why? No decent government & no decent police force, with half a brain, protects its citizens by silencing them & turning their backs on them.
Just as bad, I read this week that Swedish police are now arresting & prosecuting Swedish pensioners for so-called ‘hate crime’. Has the world gone mad? Please, for all our sakes, if you care about your children’s future, national law must be adhered to, not religious law.

Posted on 4/16/18 | 9:21 PM CEST

edel .
As Poland? There are no-go zones in Poland? ROFTL 😀

Personal Safety?

Poland 6th safiest country for woman: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-safest-countries-in-the-world-for-women-2018-1?IR=T (and it reliable, because it is based on stats for previous year

Sweden not listed.

The 10 safest countries for women in 2017 were:

1. Australia
2. Malta
3. Iceland
4. New Zealand
5. Canada
6. Poland
7. Monaco
8. Israel
9. USA
10. South Korea

By Numbeo:

Sweden most dangerous country in Europe after Ukraine.

Read more at http://www.numbeo.com/crime/indices_explained.jsp

Next ranking, safety in Sweden worse than safety in Poland, Germany.

safearound.com/danger-rankings/

Homicide rate:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

The lower the better
Japan: 0.31
Poland 0.76
Germany 0.85
Sweden 1.15

Rape rate for 2010

(lower better)
Sweden: 63.5
Poland 4.1
Germany 9.4

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics

Posted on 4/16/18 | 10:34 PM CEST

@lib crit

“Sweden still 1000x safer than the UK. A bit of perspective would be helpful.”

How is Sweden 1000x safer than the UK? Hand grenade attacks? Shootings? A murder rate above the European average?

Do you have ANYTHING to back up your statement? Or is it just more nonsense?

Your ridiculous hyperbole just makes your statements look absurd.

Posted on 4/17/18 | 12:14 AM CEST

“The topic of crime is sensitive, however, and debate about the issue in the consensus-oriented Scandinavian society is restricted by taboos.”
Freedom of expression with self-censorship? So the Swedes have no right to criticize Hungary or Poland…

Posted on 4/17/18 | 1:58 AM CEST

So tragic, and so avoidable.

You only have to look to Japan and South Korea as to how to avoid such desperation.

Two of the safest, wealthiest, and most technologically advanced countries on Earth – and how and why do such densely populated countries stay so safe?

Consider this in Japan, a country with 12 times the population of Sweden, accepted just 28 refugees in 2016. Thousands tried, nearly all failed.

Even tourists have their fingerprints taken on arrival.

Likewise with South Korea, a country with around 5 times the population of Sweden, it received only 588, excluding thousands of North Koreans, between 1994 and 2016.

There is only one mosque in the entire country too.

For people who don’t believe in the form of Swedish exceptionalism (which is actually just supremacism by another name), there might be a lesson to learn.

But we all know that the Swedish elite are too proud, too invested in their own racist superiority complex to learn from anyone else.

Posted on 4/17/18 | 2:26 AM CEST

Psychologists of the future will use the relation of the progressive left with immigration in the period 1980-2020 as an archetypal example of the “escalation of commitment” psychological effect.
Start with a correct minimization of small problems with immigration in the 80s, and, little step by little step, they end up by a voluntary blindness on major societal problems. Total dismissal of the most visible reality!

Posted on 4/17/18 | 2:55 PM CEST

@Frederic Bastiat, those numbers are from very careful selected countries. That is not how it is done, social scientists do by comparing apples with apples.

First rape (a type of sexual crimes and usually confused) is unfortunately no comparable among countries. There are multiple reasons for these; people reports rape differently if they even do, officials classify rape very differently too. Sweden is known to have the among the broadest definition of what constitutes rape that is why it tops the international rankings for decades. It is also a value changes overtime (legislation in Sweden changed the definition recently) so it is not even easy to compare in the same country over time.
There are studies though had made attempt to study these type of offences and while some like fraud and sexual ones has gone slightly up others like mugging and assault has gone slightly down. Overall we could say there has been a slight increase of reported crimes that, while worrisome, are nothing outrageous.

One thing is not so open to interpretation is intentional homicide. Thanks you for your list, but I see you spend some time customizing it to fit your point. The best is way is comparing Sweden’s homicide rate with its neighbors (from the same source you provided).
Norway 0.56
Sweden 1.15
Finland 1.6
Estonia 3.2
Latvia 4.11
From here we get that seems to be a pattern that correlates more in getting closer to the East than refugees rate (Finland has far less than Sweden). As a reference France murder rate is 1.58, US 4.88 and Germany a surprisingly low 0.85. Again, authorities in Sweden should be in the addressing it but nothing alarming in the international arena.

Posted on 4/17/18 | 4:35 PM CEST

OK. So according to Politico, suddently Sweden has become hell…..

Posted on 4/17/18 | 4:35 PM CEST

@f c
Jumping on the opportunity to display usual propaganda. Why don’t you express your views in a “free” Hungarian media rather than spoiling this site?

Posted on 4/17/18 | 4:40 PM CEST

@Patrick Bashir, comparing with Japan and South Korea is preposterous. There are large cultural differences. Yes, in those two countries homicide is very low, but people are highly unsatisfied with their life and suicide rates are too large, in South Korea doubling the rate of Sweden (Suicide affects 12 to 25 times more people than homicides so it should be more concerning to us all).
If we want to talk about societies, whether you see it economically, happiness, sustainability, etc. Sweden is a far healthier country than either Japan and SK.

Now, let’s go back and be serious.

Posted on 4/17/18 | 4:45 PM CEST

Chiquitita, tell me what’s wrong
You’re enchained by your own sorrow
In your eyes there is no hope for tomorrow
How I hate to see you like this
There is no way you can deny it
I can see that you’re oh so sad, so quiet
(oh yeah)

Posted on 4/17/18 | 7:41 PM CEST

@edel .

It seems to me that comparing Sweden to its neighbours is pointless other than to say that it isn’t terrrible by others standards. What Sweden seems to be recognising is that there is an increase in these serious crimes. Data that shows historical levels in Sweden will confirm/refute this. After all, that’s what the report states, certain serious crimes are on the increase not that it is the most dangerous place in Europe which it clearly isn’t.

Posted on 4/18/18 | 10:03 AM CEST

They are certainly right about one thing: the idea of a “Swedish Model” — that the country has much to teach the world. News from Sweden every day teaches us, and very well.

Posted on 4/18/18 | 12:39 PM CEST

Sweden, just like most of western world, is paralysed with political correctness. Self-hatred and cultural suicide is the norm, admiration of other is the must. Europe is revisiting history again. We are back in 30s of 20th century. Appeasement is the official policy, now. And the reaction will be same as in 30s. Extremism breeds extremism. Political correctness is an extreme ideology, it will be replaced by other, but opposite, extreme ideology. Victor Orban will be considered mainstream 20 years from now.

Europe never learns ….

Posted on 4/18/18 | 12:40 PM CEST

@ Jim Jones

” They are certainly right about one thing: the idea of a “Swedish Model” — that the country has much to teach the world. News from Sweden every day teaches us, and very well. ”

Indeed, Swedes are teaching us of what NOT to do. At the cost of destroying their country and culture.

Posted on 4/18/18 | 1:02 PM CEST

Interesting to finally see a piece that is straight up about the disastrous situation in Sweden. I have family on both coasts and Stockholm who I am in touch with on a regular basis. There is an anger with the entire political establishment building that eventually must be addressed or Sweden will change. The Elites coin phrases like “humanitarian super power” but they just paper over reality. The vast majority of the refugees are looking for a check and free meal plan. They refuse work on a regular basis and their demands are so rediculus on food and other accommodations it is twilight zone. One family member had a second home taken by the government and given to a refugee group of five men. After a week long rampage of rape and intimidation, the government moved them out. My family member found everything from the furniture to the interior walls was destroyed. No compensation was offered for the damage and no effort was made to charge any of the five with the crimes they committed. Another family member told me he is a member of a vigilante group that is going into “no-go” zones and dealing with islamic thugs. Police have explicit orders not to pursue thugs into the zones, so they pass on information to contacts and the vigilantes are starting to address the issues. Islamists are
disappearing” but no one reports it. The other islamists are cashing the welfare checks and no one from the government is making any effort to see who is actually in the country. The entire Swedish elite is paralyzed over the refugees and simply hopes it will go away. What does disturb my family is the training the Swedish Army started to prepare to put down civil insurrection, not by mulims, but by Swedes. One of their sons competed the training last year. Sweden will never be able to go backwards and erase the impact of the refugees. The government is unable to move forward either to stop the violence and killings, but especially the raping which had hit a majority of women. The only thing they have offered is an attempt to re-define rape to reduce the reports. The Left across western culture puts Sweden at the top for its treatment of women and ignores the islamic campaign of rape.

Posted on 4/18/18 | 2:07 PM CEST

Gisela Söderberg, Irene Ramon, read this piece from the BBC, a totally friendly media towards migrants, minorities, and non mainstreams beliefs or behaviours, no bias whatsoever:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43667367

Posted on 4/18/18 | 2:17 PM CEST

ARE GUNS ILLEGAL IN SWEDEN? THEY MUST BE!

Posted on 4/18/18 | 2:47 PM CEST

There are so many hilarious issues with this piece. In particular I love that you included links to sources that directly refute your claims, knowing full well that most of your readers will just assume the links confirm your claims without ever looking at them. First, Sweden has seen the same overall decrease in deadly crime as the rest of Europe, but seen an increase in gun deaths specifically. This is because of an increase in gang violence and in the availability of guns from other countries, none of which is related to refugees and immigrants from the Middle East. The recent crime wave you reference as being “violent crimes” is primarily an increase in sexual harassment and fraud, two decidedly non-violent crimes. Now, I can’t stress enough: all of my statements are in the links provided in the article. The blatant disregard for honesty and truth represented in this piece is truly galling. But hey, good job perpetuating the misinformation that keeps your CEO and all his friends on the gravy train of a Republican tax system! Mission Accomplished!

Posted on 4/18/18 | 2:49 PM CEST

Also, just for a little perspective, the annual gun homicide rate in Sweden is roughly 4 per 1 million. The United States gun homicide rate is roughly 130 per 1 million. Subtracting suicides, around 36 people are killed with guns everyday in the US. So, with roughly 30 times the population of Sweden, we have nearly as many gun homicides everyday as they have in a year. In one month we have the same gun homicide rate per capita as Sweden has in a year. If we’re going to call Sweden violent hellscape like this piece wants us to, then what is the United States? The Eye of Satan’s Butthole?

Posted on 4/18/18 | 3:35 PM CEST

40 murders a year (actually it’s about 100)? That would make a conservative city like Lubbock TX swoon. They have 1/36 the population of Sweden but manage to have 14-20 murders a year. 14×36= on track for >500 murders a year. How can a country of 9.3 million be going down the tubes when it’s rate is less than a nice family based community like Lubbock (run by republicans for years). Heck in a well managed city like NYC (8.5m people), there was 286 murders. That’s among the best rates going when you consider large cities in the US. Go anywhere in the midwest and it’s like sitting in a barrel. If Sweden is in a crisis over 100 murders a year, then imagine when you BEST cities have triple the number (and our worst have 10-20 times). Maybe it’s time to view gun violence as out of control (as Paulina Neuding seems to think)…if we apply her logic they should be grabbing guns in the US as fast as they can.

Posted on 4/18/18 | 4:30 PM CEST

@Frederic Bastiat – The numbers you post are a hoot. You have Australia listed as ranked safest for women, but the sources you quote show it has nearly double the rate of rape as Sweden?? How does that add up??? You quote multiple sources, but they all conflict. The numbers are also insanely inaccurate, and state it as such. India is amongst the lowest, yet if you researched it..you’d know that reported rates are very low due to cultural AND class issues. It also shows countries in war torn parts of africa with amazingly low rates, yet when those people come to sweden..suddenly there is an immigrant effect??? That would imply it’s the white Swedes doing the raping, if the countries of origin have less rates for those immigrants.

Posted on 4/18/18 | 4:40 PM CEST

@ mark state, Riley Michel

Why you compare Sweden to US? That´s comparing apples to bananas. Different culture, history, demography etc. Compare Sweden to Sweden. Sweden now to Sweden 50 years ago. Ask a 60-70 yeras old Swedish if he/she feels safer now then in his/her 20s. Actually, they cant even answer properly because there are areas where they dont dare to go. Was it so 50 years ago? Morever, it´s not just about crime, but also culture and identity and integration, or the lack of it.

Mass immigration from entirely different culture will lead to increased ghettoisation and balkanisation. Europe will increasingly resemble the old Holy Roman Empire, with hundreds if not thousands of small semi-independet kingdoms and principalities permanently at each other´s throats and with central power too weak, which everyone ignores. Or in short a semi-anarchy.

But who knows, maybe that´s the goal – to weaken Europe …

Posted on 4/18/18 | 5:01 PM CEST

Swedish Government = Baghdad Bob.

Posted on 4/19/18 | 12:32 AM CEST

It’s nice to see that this media outlet is actually paying attention. It’s about time. I noticed the article failed to mention what happens to Swedes who dare mention migrant violence. It’s criminal how they hide the truth. Sweden has serious problems in schools, in public places, and on public transportation due to these migrants. The cops arent allowed to make ethnicities part of crime reports in order to “protect” migrants who are not in danger. They have ruined that country.

Posted on 4/19/18 | 6:36 AM CEST

Paulina Neuding does not care to mention that the number of victims of murder and manslaughter was nearly the same in 2017 as in the early 1990s.
Even though the population of Sweden has increased by almost one and a half million inhabitants during the period the number of victims of a violent death has not increased.

Murder and manslaughter has moved out on the street and is more visible than the traditional Swedish family violence, mainly aimed at women and children.
There we have the difference between today’s situation and 1990.

Why then was it so important for Paulina Neuding to write this misleading article?
The answer is that Sweden for some in the international community stands as a symbol of multiculturalism, feminism and LGBT rights.
For those who despise these activities and Paulina Neuding is such a person, it becomes important to try to make Sweden look as bad as possible.
It is indeed a difficult task in view of how well the Swedish economy has developed under the past decades and the fact that crime in generally rather is decreasing than increasing.

If Sweden is such a economical and social success as statistical figures indicates then it could be argued that LBG rights, feminism and multiculturalism are profitable, both socially and economical.
A horrid thought for many and also obviously for Paulina Neuding.

Posted on 4/19/18 | 8:35 PM CEST

@ Erik Andersson

Swedish multiculturalism works so well, that Swedish prime minister is considering sending army in the streets to end violence.

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Sweden To Deploy Army In No-Go Zones, Publishes Leaflets Preparing People For War
January 18, 2018 2:26 pm by Andjela Radmilac

“Sweden will do whatever it takes” to end a wave of gang violence that has swept throughout the country, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Wednesday, according to Reuters.
…
The idea of getting the military involved in resolving the issue of ‘no-go’ zones within Sweden’s cities, where a large majority of migrants reside, was floated when Sweden’s political leaders debated how to combat problems with gang crime in the country.
….
“We’re going to continue to combat the forming of a parallel society. Today we need rules to be tightened, increasing control to cut out economic criminality,” he told the Riksdag, The Local reported.
…

Enjoy your multiculturalism while it lasts

Posted on 4/20/18 | 2:21 AM CEST

Across Europe, our Western democracies and our historical modus vivendi have been weakened for some time now by the antisocial, proselyte behavior of a number of vocal minorities and pressure groups. The individualistic creed of some suggests that society is made up of individuals parachuted from everywhere and nowhere, and that they should live next to each other with no links between them, no roots, no past, no history or group identity, and that it works fine for everyone. Others on the contrary are a genuine copy-paste of communism, heralding its grand return through the back door: to these, the group is more important than the individual; as an end per se their beliefs, with their divine legitimacy to provide more weight and make more impact, do nothing else than crush the individual. Nevertheless, these two opposites have one major point in common, derived from totalitarian ideologies and regimes with gallons of blood on their hands: “if you are not with us, you are against us”. In the middle, most of us are kept silent and inactive by media-relayed insidious tactics such as victimisation etc we are all too familiar with. However, there is one glimmer of hope left: communism lost in the end. Hopefully, these antisocial lobbies will not have the last word.

Posted on 4/20/18 | 10:54 AM CEST