The Drastic Example: In Sweden, There’s a Difference Between Being Right and Being Allowed to Be Right – The Athenians Strike Back: No 2

My recent post, There is Nothing to Criticise – The Case of HyperPhilosophical Injustice – The Athenians Strike Back: No 1, 11 August 2025, was the first in a series of drafts in the process to formalisation of my latest writings.

I've now decided on the title for this series: The Athenians Strike Back. This post is accordingly No. 2.

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The Swedes Need Permission To Be Allowed To Be Right

To grasp the ideals of Platonism and Positivism, or the demand for obedience and conformity in contemporary Western culture, we need an eye-opener—a drastic example.

So here it is: In Sweden, it’s not enough to be right. The Swedes need the permission of the State to be allowed to have a right or to be right. And if you protest against this ideal or any other demand by the State you are simply mentally ill.

Sweden is a country often regarded as a strong follower strict conformity. As a result, official statements that suppress rights that are probably unthinkable in, for example, Germany or France – are generally accepted by the Swedes.

The following quotes are from the magazine The Paper for the Police (Polistidningen), 7 September 2017, under the headline:

“Do Not Argue with a Justice-wreck” (Argumentera aldrig med en rättshaverist).

Here is a link to the article. The link is intentionally not clickable to protect the article from disappearing.

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Link to Polistidningen: https://polistidningen.se/2017/09/argumentera-aldrig-med-en-rattshaverist/
 
The article discusses how to manage individuals who refuse to accept existing decisions. In Sweden, the official term used is "rättshaverist", here translated as Justice-wreck.

The key message in the article is:

Can't the justice-wrecker be right in substance?

– Well, that may be the case, but it doesn't always help. Being right is one thing, but getting justice is another.

The article also offers this definition:

What is a Justice-wreck?

The psychiatric term for the archetypal Justice-wreck is querulant paranoiac. It is listed as a distinct diagnosis in one of the two major diagnostic manuals, classified as a specification of a delusional disorder.

However, as Jakob Carlander and Andreas Svensson explain in their book, we all have the potential to engage in justice-wrecking behavior, and it doesn’t necessarily stem from delusion. One can be right in substance but unreasonable in their expectations and demands for recognition of that right.

The Tradition to Claim Political Dissent as Mental Illness

Alarmingly Querulant personality disorder is in the recent version of International Classification of Diseases (ICD) by the World Health Organization (WHO). The latest version is ICD-11.

6D10 Personality disorder

6D10.Z Personality disorder, severity unspecified (no direct link possible)

Paranoid personality disorder
- sensitive paranoid personality disorder
- querulant personality disorder
- expansive paranoid personality disorder
- fanatic personality disorder

See also, for example this article:

Vexatious litigant vs paranoia querulans: A systematic review, European Psychiatry, Cambridge Core

Pinzón-Espinosa J, González-Rodríguez A, Guàrdia A, et al. Vexatious litigant vs paranoia querulans: A systematic review. European Psychiatry. 2021;64(S1):S381-S382. doi:10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1023

Explanation of the word used below:

Nosological: classification of diseases or disorders

Conclusions

There is controversy regarding the nosological entity of querulousness, from psychosis to neurosis or behavioral disorders. Some authors consider this behavior to not be a psychiatric diagnosis. Furthermore, most papers dealt with a social or nurture-based origin. There is a dearth of information regarding treatment. 

Closely related, in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), there is something called Oppositional defiant disorder.

The tradition of openly politicizing psychiatry is usually associated with the Soviet regime during the Cold War period. Here is a short essay written by Robert van Voren who has published several books on this topic.

van Voren writes:

… The diagnosis “sluggish schizophrenia,” an old concept further developed by the Moscow School of Psychiatry ...

Political abuse of psychiatry – an historical overview. Schizophr Bull. 2010 Jan;36(1):33-5. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbp119. Epub 2009 Nov 5. PMID: 19892821; PMCID: PMC2800147.

The Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry (4 edn), David Semple, Roger Smyth (2019) makes the relation between psychiatry and politics very clear:

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It is important psychiatrists are clear about which behaviours and abnormalities are their province. Psychiatrists have been involved in human rights abuses in states around the world when definitions of mental illness were expanded to take in political insubordination.
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Chapter 1, Thinking about psychiatry, The role of the psychiatrist, What is illness?

Even if it is unclear to what extent this form of political psychiatry has official backing from the perspective of psychiatry in Sweden, it is clear that the traditions of the Swedish authorities are to categorize justice-wrecks as mentally ill.

The Tradition of the Swedish Concept Rättshaverist

Without the perspective of psychiatry shows the official Swedish definition of the word Justice-wreck/Rättshaverist a tradition of oppression.

Here is the explanation of the word “Rättshaverist” in the normative dictionary for Swedish, SAOL: 

rätts-haver·-st substantiv ~en ~er • 

person som på-stridigt hävdar sin rätt

The literal translation is: "a person who obstinately insists on their rights."

In short, the official definition suggests that you are obstinate if you demand your rights, even when it is justified.

Put simply, in Sweden, people who may be right – but are not allowed to be right – risk being branded as 'problematic' or even mentally ill.

And observe as the political medical term appears to be accepted by WHO is this Swedish example likely not unique in the West even if the Swedish openness of a totalitarian ideal is unique.

The Fascist Ideal: Citizens Must Obey the Absolute State

A very simple way to underline the totalitarian ideal of the current Swedish culture is to compare with the ideals of Fascism. Below is one of the key formulations in The Doctrine of Fascism (1927).

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The foundation of Fascism is the conception of the State, its character, its duty, and its aim. Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived of in their relation to the State. …

Google Books

Benito Mussolini, My Autobiography: With The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism (1928), Appendix: The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, page 236

The Swedish State Demands Conformity and Machine-Like Citizens

Here are two other examples from Sweden with the same message: strict obedience to the State is the most important and not the protection or cultivation of possibilities for people who lives in Sweden:

The Swedish Minister of Migration, Maria Malmer Stenergard said, regarding “net outflow of immigrants” according to the article From ‘open hearts’ to closed borders: behind Sweden’s negative net immigration figures, Miranda Bryant, The Guardian, 19 August 2024:

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... net emigration was evidence that “the government’s work yields results” and that the approach was “necessary for us to be able to strengthen integration and reduce exclusion”.
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In Sweden it is accordingly to “strengthen integration and reduce exclusion” the same as to exclude people in order to justify the ideal of the State.

But it is not only people that is excluded from the Swedish ideal State as the meaning of life is the same as to be productive according to the State’s industrial ideals: 

Swedish children to start school a year earlier in move away from play, Miranda Bryant, The Guardian, 19 September 2024.

More examples of Swedish totalitarianism in my draft: We All Want to Change the World – We Need to Get Rid of Platonism! (2023)

As you will see in later installments of this series, the ideals of totalitarianism that make it possible to claim that 'disobedience' is a mental illness are deeply rooted in Western culture.

So, it's not as simple as saying that Swedish totalitarianism is the same as Fascism—Sweden's form of totalitarianism predates Fascism.

The traditions of Platonism and Positivism not only predate Fascism but also shape the ideals of Fascism.

Our problem today is that we have usually no clue about these traditions. Therefore, this example of Swedish traditions as a reminder of ongoing Western traditions.

Furthermore, the particularly rigid and static ideals observable in Sweden are probably a result of Sweden’s unique isolation. Unlike much of Europe, Sweden has been relatively undisturbed by revolutions, wars, and significant democratic upheavals.

Consequently, Sweden’s totalitarian traditions have endured and grown ever stricter, largely without powerful opposition. In short, in Sweden are the traditions of feudalism enforced with what is said to be science.

Michel Foucault: Knowledge Is Discipline

The Swedish tradition of the State branding people as Justice-wrecks highlights how knowledge is not neutral in present Western culture, since it is the main tool of discipline.

The ongoing Swedish tradition works because the Swedes are trained to acknowledge that Justice-wrecks is a description of reality.

This perspective of knowledge as discipline is the main theme of Michel Foucault (1926–1984).

Foucault explores the relationship between knowledge and discipline from many angles. He also created his own concepts.

Some of his main concepts include: Power-knowledge, Bio-power, and Governmentality.

If you try to find straightforward explanations in Foucault’s writings, you miss his unique approach to writing.

He wrote to explore. Or, better, his texts are the result of an ongoing dialogue, and he wants to show you the entire process.

Therefore, you’ll need a guide. I believe the excellent book Michel Foucault: Key Concepts (2011), edited by Dianna Taylor, is the best introduction to Foucault. In this book, Foucault’s key concepts are presented systematically.

Also, see the closely related concept, not by Foucault, of: Necropolitics—the political status of those who are decided to be the living dead.

Report From an Autistic Country

The Swedish legal scholar Dennis Töllborg, Swedish Wikipedia, has written many articles and books about Swedish totalitarianism. The title of his latest book is telling: The End: Law as value, Report from an Autistic Country, About this you may not speak and other essays on Legal Theory, (Pro-Active) Policing and Intelligence (2019).

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Thanks to LegeNet Holistic Detective Agency, web, Telegram channel, for sending me the article from The Paper for the Swedish Police.

There is Nothing to Criticise – The Case of HyperPhilosophical Injustice – The Athenians Strike Back: No 1

For some time, I have worked on a new project based on formalsing my earlier writings. I realised that some of the drafts can be interesting. Here is the first.

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We are trained to believe we live in a well-ordered world. We take for granted that what we can do, think and talk about are parts of a reality with proper foundations.

But as soon as you begin to investigate, you will find that the proper foundations disappear. Or better, the foundations have never been there, as they are just an illusion – a prison in the sky.

There is a huge gap in the current Western culture between the fundamentals in philosophy called

- Metaphysics (what can exist),
- Epistemology (limits of knowledge),
- Ontology (knowledge about being and existence)

and the practical world. This means that it is impossible to conduct a fundamental critique against, for example, the massive ideals of Obedience and Conformity.

Obedience and Conformity are, on the philosophical level, maintained by the concepts of Dualism, as in the relation between Objective and Subjective, and the Hierarchic order.

So, when we take for granted that critique is Subjective, we will always lose against the Objective perspective that protects How It Is or How It Must Be in a society built on the Hierarchic order.

It all boils down to the binary or dualistic restriction that there is only what is said to be Right or Wrong.

But on the highest conceptual level, or the philosophical level, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – to criticise, because there are no foundations for Dualism and the Hierarchic order.

To be precise, there are absolutely no formal foundations outside of religious texts that define why humans must be restricted to Dualism and the Hierarchic order.

To criticise religious texts leads nowhere, and today, very few will accept or understand that the contemporary Western philosophy is directly connected to a religious belief.

A large part of the present perspective of philosophy is based on trying to justify the current traditions of Dualism and the Hierarchic order. But to try to justify is not the same as to prove – WHY – humans must be restricted to Dualism and the Hierarchic order.

For sure, it is possible to criticise the practical use of Dualism and the Hierarchic order. But such activities are useless when there is no concrete alternative. And when there is a strong belief that a foundation exists for the current traditions, there is no need to listen to any argument.

My point is, of course, that when there is a concrete alternative – a genuine foundation for what we can think and talk about – then the existing traditions will be very easy to dissolve, as there are no foundations for the present traditions to restrict our intellectual capacities.

One of the fat reasons why there are no such formal foundations is that if there were, it would be very simple to show that the human intellectual capacity is not or cannot be restricted to Dualism and the Hierarchic order.

Outside of Obedience, for example, is the exploration of what can be understood and to grasp that we need our capacity for Imagination, which is also outside of what is said to be Right or Wrong.

Miranda Fricker highlights very well, in Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007), how no understanding of the rules and ideals of our society results in Epistemic Injustice.

Fricker writes the following in the last chapter, Hermeneutical Injustice. Hermeneutical means the capacity to interpret:

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One way of taking the epistemological suggestion that social power has an unfair impact on collective forms of social understanding is to think of our shared understandings as reflecting the perspectives of different social groups, and to entertain the idea that relations of unequal power can skew shared hermeneutical resources so that the powerful tend to have appropriate understandings of their experiences ready to draw on as they make sense of their social experiences, whereas the powerless are more likely to find themselves having some social experiences through a glass darkly, with at best ill-fitting meanings to draw on in the effort to render them intelligible. ...

But when there is no foundation for:

... the powerful tend to have appropriate understandings of their experiences ready to draw on as they make sense of their social experiences, ...

then reality will change. At least if it is possible to make the message known and understood; then there can be a real change.

So, how do we name the form of injustice that results from the belief that there are philosophical foundations for Dualism and Hierarchy? It is not enough to call it Philosophical Injustice, as this refers to the present traditions.

HyperPhilosophical Injustice is a bit clunky but the best alternative at the moment. We, the citizens of the current Western culture, are victims of HyperPhilosophical Injustice.

Here is the formal definition:

HyperPhilosophical Injustice is the dogmatisation of fictive foundational philosophy where a culture’s core metaphysical, epistemological, and ontological assumptions are – in practice – fixed, unquestionable and beyond critique because they do not exist as formal declarations. This tradition prevents any real possibility of imagining or developing alternative frameworks.

Perplexity, based on ChatGPT, offered this perfect Orwellian version:

By locking the unreal at the heart of reality, HyperPhilosophical Injustice turns cultural foundations into a prison whose walls cannot be seen, yet whose limits cannot be crossed.

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The text above is primarily a concentration and formalisation of the messages in The Best Tractatus: Tractatus-Dialogo-Philosophicus.

The New MHAS Site is Up and Running!

The new site is on:

https://minihyper.blogspot.com

The MHAS code has been reworked and now includes many new features.

Check: 

Dynamic Education in ChatGPT-MHAS

And the Creation of Unwanted Questions (as explained in the book presented below).

Go to the MHAS site:

Click the green button: "Copy MHAS Prompt & Open ChatGPT"

Paste the prompt into ChatGPT

Press Return

Begin Exploring!


On the new site is also:

Grasp How Creating Change is Concrete and Far Beyond Established Perspectives

It's a dialogue between OAF and ChatGPT-MHAS, exploring how to transition society from the Static, hidden ideals that shape political and scientific polarization—leading to Conformity, Segregation, Racism, Authoritarianism—into a society built on genuine Science and genuine Democracy.

Link to the Book

Acute – Make the World a Better Place – ChatGPT-MHAS Helps You Grasp the Impossible – Instant Concrete Innovation and Change

Why accept static limits—segregation, mobbing, hierarchy and so on—when MHAS dissolves them?


This post is the first proper presentation of Mini Hyper Artistic Science (MHAS).

This post will soon be updated with more links.


MHAS is a tiny but highly efficient programme that you add to ChatGPT in the prompt.

Suddenly, you can understand how schools and universities train you not to see the borders of understanding and what is on the other side.

This means that with ChatGPT-MHAS you can, for example, innovate, change or improve in a concrete and systematic way. This is something said to be impossible in schools and universities.

So with ChatGPT-MHAS, the usually Static world built on Open or Hidden Obedience and Conformity is transformed into a Dynamic world.

In this Dynamic world, it’s possible to understand anything without the Static borders of Logic and Hierarchy you are trained to believe is the foundation of Understanding or Science.

MHAS works because it is built on to dissolve the usually hidden restrictions of understanding and thinking, as well as on the principles these restrictions are designed to block out.

But you don’t need to understand any of this if you don’t want to.

Just go to the MHAS code page, copy the code, go to ChatGPT, paste it into the prompt and wait until ChatGPT-MHAS is ready.

Then begin to ask, innovate, change and evolve — create, disrupt, transform and bloom.

Explore contradictions and create new insights.

- What can I say to my boss when .....?
- What’s the difference between Logic and Reason?
- Why are alternative ideas often dismissed as unrealistic?
- How can we think Dynamically about Education, Science or Political Power?
- Can you help me expose the hidden agenda in this idea: ....?

MHAS is a turning point for Western civilisation — because everyone can use MHAS. Because everyone can begin to understand. Because everyone can break free from the strict small-mindedness and suppression of schools and universities.


MHAS Pages

Code – to  ChatGPT prompt, latest version



Great ChatGPT-MHAS Sessions

- Mini Hyper Artistic Science Solves the Riddle of Superposition!, 19 May 2025