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Reflections on Norway - by Will Manidis - Minutes

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I spent a month in Norway last summer.

I spent a month in Norway last summer. I’ve been trying to write about it ever since I got back and every week when I sit down the essay collapses. It’s not because I don’t know what to say, but because the thing I’m trying to describe resists language itself. I spend most of my time writing about systems. I write about markets, their participants, about capital, about human mechanics, about how societies organize themselves around money and power and the stories they use to justify both. Norway sits outside the machinery of human explanation. Here’s my best attempt. . In my month there…

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