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James Scott book Jiang uses to explain state legibility, planning, and the destruction of spontaneity and local knowledge.
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Seeing Like a State
James Scott book Jiang uses to explain state legibility, planning, and the destruction of spontaneity and local knowledge.
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"defied reality they fought against reality so even though the nazis were losing the war even though it's clear they cannot defeat the soviet..."
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"it's an excellent book by the way uh called seeing like a state and he's trying to explain to us how properties blockages work..."
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A source-grounded reading of bureaucracy as institutional death: university comfort replaces education, administrators turn complaints into jobs, managers feed on organizations like parasites, and the only exit left to students is real knowledge outside...
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