A question (since you for obvious reasons don't have DMs open): Would it be OK to translate some of your essays to Swedish? I think a lot of people would be interested in reading them, people who wouldn't neccessarily feel comfortable reading English non-fiction.
Freddie de Boer on the aggressively conventional-minded:https://medium.com/@jesse.singal/planet-of-cops-50889004904d …
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Of course. In fact if you send me the urls I'll link to them.
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There's a concept In the control theory/engineering I keep coming back as an analogy for what the author calls 'Planet of Cops', an overshoot In systems where time to reach the desired state is critical, overshoot is used to lower that time by increasing the aggressiveness of 1/
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the control signal. So it seems to me that a general sentiment in the society that we have a lot of things that are far from the desired state so we need to overshoot aggressively to reach those states as quickly as possible. 2/
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outstanding and sent me down a rabbit hole of his other essays, all great
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Beautifully accurate. And now I cannot stop saying ‘panopticon’
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