The kid is “spot on”. Listening to the Swedish politicians is frightening. Both sides have embraced the inevitability of an Islamic Sweden like the euphoric peace of a drowning man, sinking with his lungs full of water. They don’t call it “Stockholm Syndrome” for nothing...
Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
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T.S. Eliot,
The Wasteland lines 318-326
Yes, consider Phlebas. Consider Phlebas.