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Jiang uses James Scott to support the claim that market exchange, Enlightenment standardization, and revolutionary state-building made the metric revolution and state simplification possible.
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Metric System
Rousseau's political reason leads Jiang to 'count, measure, compare': good government becomes measurable progress, and the French Revolution expresses that in the metric system.
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Rousseau's political reason leads Jiang to 'count, measure, compare': good government becomes measurable progress, and the French Revolution expresses that in the metric system.
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"But the nation state... Because it is almost like a new religion. It wants standardization and systematization. It wants everyone to buy into the..."
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"...revolution, and especially Napoleon, the Napoleonic state building actually enforced the metric system in France and the empire. Okay? So just summarizing what we..."
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"So if you only think about the common interest, everyone would come to the same conclusion about everything. Okay? If the general will is..."
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"...And that's why in the French Revolution they will introduce the metric system. The metric system comes from the French Revolution. And the metric..."
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"...12 yards okay so so so they don't actually use the metric system in america but but everyone else does but i'm wrong to..."
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"...people to speak the same language, getting people to use the metric system, getting people to use money. All right? And this creates tremendous..."
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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