wait some people see Seeing Like a State as a how-to guide instead of a Know Your Enemy guide?
its written as a critique
reality is the battlefield
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The world is made worse by the insistence that there must always be some Ground Truth against which one compares their subjective experience.
"Am I REALLY trans or..."
There is no such thing.
"Am I REALLY plural or..."
There is no such thing.
"Am I REALLY a Good Person or..."
There is no such thing.
"Am I REALLY a..."
These are all artificially constructed categories. The labels don't matter. Does the framework help? That's what matters.
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because it talks about all that is lost when you see people as metrics, not just in human suffering, but in how much it hinders the state itself in terms of being able to read the needs and strife of it's people.
your library almost certainly will have it. audiobooks exist too.