Baseline Oppression
How are control theory and human behavior related? In control theory, the goal is to provide feedback loop mechanism that will efficiently control a process by removing oscillations and reaching a stable system. This is typically demonstrated and measured with a step response which contains a transient overcompensation or overshoot in the signal, red response (Fig 1). Fig 1. Step response of human behavior. This response, action and reaction (feedback loop), is seen in human behavior. Similar to control theory we have to adjust our parameters to keep our human social system, stable. When oppression is baseline for a long time, people will be born into an unjust system. Eventually a trigger (at time = 0) will cause a response wherein initially the result will be the other end of oppression because of over corrective measures (overshoot). The tables are flipped during this transient response stage. The oppressed become the oppressors. Both the initial and