On October 20, 2019, there was a book release, Not In His Image, by John Lamb Lash in Stockholm, Sweden. You could say it’s a reconstruction of age old gnostic wisdom and knowledge based on primarily the Nag Hammadi codices, discovered in Egypt in 1947. The release event had a theme - The Wave Breaks from the North.
Why from the North? I’ve given that question some thought.
When WHO declared a global pandemic the measures taken by the Swedish government authorities were uniquely different from those in the rest of the world. Many were those who wondered why this was so. Are there explanations to why Sweden deviates strongly from it’s nordic neighbors?
Yes, there are several ways this can be explained. I will propose that Swedes are aboriginals who have lived off center stage of the world arena for long enough to have escaped being heavily touched by the power play in the world at large. Long enough to having maintained a material, grounded, human attitude to life. Power over others has not played a major role in Sweden. At least not in comparison to other countries.
Sweden has never been occupied by any foreign power. Thus we have never been victimized. Nor have we subjugated other people in the role of a colonial power. Thus we haven’t taken on the role of subjugator and aren’t suffering from colonial guilt.
On the other hand, no other country has had a central feudal elite in power to control it’s people, unhampered by foreign occupation, for more than 500 years. So, we have been victims of more sophisticated state control than any other people on Earth.
We, as a people, have been the victims of our central power and have had to deal with a centuries long trauma as best we could.
There are some important events that explain why we are unique and that have played a role in forming Sweden of today. I will give a summary of these events.
Nestor’s Chronicle
In the year 862 it is written there was social unrest in the country. The inhabitants decided to find a prince from across the Baltic. They went to the Varangians (i.e. the Scandinavians) and more specifically the Rus (from Roslagen, north of present day Stockholm) and invited Rurik and his two brothers to rule over the country. They came with ”all of Rus” and Rurik settled in Novgorod. “And from these Varangians the Russian nation got its name.
The quotation is taken from “Vikings going east”, an article by The Swedish Institute and The Swedish History Museum.
Go to 10:00 unless you want to watch the whole video
So, the Varangians were invited to rule. They came from Roslagen (= rowing team) and Ros became Rus in Russia.
The Dacke rebellion
During the Reformation northern Europe got rid of the Roman Catholic Church and established Protestantism in its stead. The changes created social instability and opposition. The most important rebellion took place in Sweden and was led by a farmer, Nils Dacke. The newly installed king, Gustav Vasa, lost to Dacke and his men from all over Sweden. Dacke had grievances and a list of demands. Gustav Vasa feared for his life and promised to meet all Dacke’s demands.
Some of the victors thought they should kill the king and take over the throne. Dacke himself said no to this. He discharged his men and went back to the farm. The king thought he was lucky and sent his men to kill Dacke, cut off his head and put it on a pike for display in the city of Kalmar. Dacke’s son was put in prison and starved to death.
Gustav Vasa then made sure that the history of the rebellion turned into a story of a local bandit that the state cleaned out. This false version of what happened has been taught in Swedish schools until the present day.
Once again - Dacke just wanted practical results, not power to rule the country.
Central power
Gustav Vasa started a 500 year long period of unhampered, finely honed control of the common people in Sweden. The protestant church turned into a secret police. The parishes had information of each and every individual and reported to the central power in the capital. From 1686 and onwards detailed ledgers were kept and the long period of control continues. The period of control has been unhampered by any outside forces or circumstances like war and occupation.
The Farmers Rebellion of 1811 and enclosure laws
Social unrest led to a serious uprising against land owners in southern Sweden in 1811. The central power were concerned and used all its military force to beat it down. And they were afraid the uprisings could spread to the rest of the country. An estate owner, Rutger MacLean, had previously split the villages where his farmers lived and moved their buildings and homes to the combined lots. They were spread out. And these farmers didn’t take part in the uprising. The central power realised this would be the way to go. All villages were to be split up this way by law, a process that went on till the 1920s. To make it seem “democratic”, if one inhabitant of a village wanted this split, the law was that the split had to be executed.
This was a tremendous trauma for the whole population. Everyone risked being uprooted from their birthplace at the whim of one person in the village. This happened in Sweden exclusively, not in Denmark, Germany or France. On a flight from Paris to Stockholm a clear night you can see the clusters of lights of all the villages until you cross over to Sweden where you will only see single farm lights spread over the countryside. There is one part of Sweden in the north, Dalecarlia, where people refused to request splitting of the village. Since all traditions in the rest of Sweden were eradicated, Dalecarlia, has given Sweden its traditions. Midsummer night festivities, Wasa crisp bread, and many more.
Historian, Per Johan Ödman, is the only one who has studied the emotional impact the splitting of villages had on people who suffered the traumatic period. I made an interview with him a few years back and asked him how it might affect Swedes today:
After a long thought he replied:
— A feeling of not really feeling at home. A sense of not being rooted. That moving from one place to another is something you have to accept. That belonging is impermanent.
My comment is this. Mattias Desmet and Ariane Bilheran claim that one characteristic of people who question the narrative of the state is that they have learnt to deal with trauma. We Swedes have done that. In different ways. One third of the population left the country for the United States. The number of descendants over there roughly equals the number of Swedes in Sweden. The rest of us hunkered down and made the best of it. Like creating new stuff - IKEA, fighter jets, Spotify, ABBA, Volvo, H&M - the list is long.
Emigration and WW1 and WW2
The writer Wilhelm Moberg alerted Swedes to the reality of losing a large part of the population, a fact that had been brushed under the carpet by the central power. Moberg wrote his books in California and was a staunch critic of the social democratic party and coined the expression “democrature”, a devious combination of dictatorship under the guise of democracy.
Other events of importance
The union between Sweden and Norway was dissolved in 1905. There were some who wanted to subjugate the Norwegians by military force, but in the end it wasn’t deemed worth that effort. Leave it and move on!
We made an effort to stay neutral and not take part in either WW1 or WW2. Amoral one might say, and Sweden has been criticized for letting down its neighbors. Sacrificing Swedish lives if we can avoid it? Nah, what’s the point! No victimhood here.
The nordic countries may share a lot, but we are very different in many aspects.
Go to 14:40 unless you want to watch the whole video
Sweden has never been occupied by a foreign power and has never been a colonial power. We bought Saint-Barthélemy from France and kept it for a while. It was a trendy thing to do at the time. Doesn’t qualify us as a former colonial power, though.
Finland has been an independant country for just one century. Occupied/part of (victim) of Sweden till 1809 and then Russia till 1917.
Denmark is both a colonial power (guilt) for the inuites of Greenland and was occupied (victim) by Germany.
Norway has been occupied (victim) by Denmark, Sweden, and Germany.
My conclusions
All of the above has affected Sweden in a unique way. I conclude that Swedes are:
- suffering from an age old extremely sophisticated control apparatus by the central power
- uprooted from age old local traditions
- in spite of all this, grounded in the soil of their native land.
This makes us dangerous to the central power.
We Swedes tend to view ourselves as cowardly breakfast table complainers. Not like the French who take to the streets and actually do something. Or the freedom loving Australians or the Americans with their Constitution. The Swedes I know aren’t cowards. No, they are competent and sensible people. I am convinced we still have the spirit of Dacke in us.
Losing your traditions and sense of belonging is painful but has the advantage of letting you be open to possibilities that would otherwise be blocked from view.
I expect something unexpected from Swedes in the unfolding plandemic drama.
Sources (in Swedish)
”Vikingar i Osterled”
Dacke
https://varldenshistoria.se/krig/revolution/nils-dacke-ledde-upproret-mot-gustav-vasa https://popularhistoria.se/sveriges-historia/ett-sekel-av-oro https://historiesajten.se/visainfo.asp?id=235
Bondeupproret 1811
Laga skifte
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laga_skifte
(Per Johan Odman)
https://www.studentlitteratur.se/person/forfattare/per-johan-odman/
Why Sweden is different
Wrote this, commenting on The End of Castle Europe and the First Day of Freedom
http://thesaker.is/the-end-of-castle-europe-and-the-first-day-of-freedom/
"on my visits to Sweden I felt quite at home :-)"
"Viking" is not the same coming from Norway, Denmark or Sweden.
The Swedish Vikings went East and eventually were part of creating Russia in the 9th century, Kievan Rus. Rus in Russia is the Swedish word Ro, which means "row". The Swedish Vikings were rowers as much as sailors. And they were traders more than pirates.
You can read more about this here
https://lennartmogren.substack.com/p/covid-19-why-sweden-is-different
In my view, Sweden is not part of Europe. Going to Europe in my youth meant leaving Sweden. This matters. Being hijacked doesn't mean that your origine is in any way changed. Pasted over, but not changed.
That's why in the upcoming elections September 11, there is one party that will introduce the idea of direct democracy as expressed by Moammar Gaddafi :
"it is unthinkable that democracy should mean the electing of only a few representatives to act on behalf of great masses. This is an obsolete structure. Authority must be in the hands of all of the people."
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260422279_Libya_Birth_or_Death_of_a_New_Democracy
Gaddafi was inspired by Rousseau who wrote:
"T]he moment a people allows itself to be represented, it is no longer free: it no longer exists.”
This political party won't have but one single idea, namely to perform referendums for the people of Sweden on all important issues and then vote accordingly in Parliament. It's a first step to overthrowing the neo-con rule of our land.
https://knapptryckarna.se
One more important fact. Sweden never succumbed to the Euro. Most political parties and unions were in favor of joining the monetary union. There was a period of intense study among people of the pros and cons. And the people voted No! In spite of the pressure from parties, unions and media. Unexpected, to say the least!
It makes a difference. We slipped away from the direct grip of the European Central Bank.
Nor are we a Nato member state (yet!), like Norway and Denmark. The Swedish political class hate Russia, but Swedes in general just don't.