I visited Taiwan, where the bin lorries drive the streets playing music like an ice cream van. When they arrived at a particular street, the residents came out of their houses to deposit their recycling…
https://twitter.com/Babygravy9/status/1595026052807593984
Witnessing this, I was immediately transported back to my then home in east London, where the street were littered with mattresses and empty cans of cooking oil.
Taipei, on paper a poorer city than London, was an important inflection point on my political development
Taipei, on paper a poorer city than London, was an important inflection point on my political development
Previously I had thought of freedom/order as trade offs in a Liberal, social democratic sense. But in Taipei, where I felt safer as a foreigner at midnight than on my own street in daylight, I started to realise that freedom is largely a product of order and security
I felt like one of those Soviet citizens who on encountering western tech or seeing a bustling supermarket suddenly sees through the myths they’d accepted about their life. Why can’t I live free from crime? Why can’t we build houses? What’s going on here?
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