tangent: Part 1 "State projects of Legibility and Simplification" of Scott's book "Seeing Like a State" discusses how central bureaucracy likes to organise thi

tangent: Part 1 "State projects of Legibility and Simplification" of Scott's book "Seeing Like a State" discusses how central bureaucracy likes to organise things to make things more legible and tractable to centrally administration. Examples in Scott's book include: assigning people surnames (all the better to track and tax them), standardisation weights and measures, standardisation of language. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300078152/seeing-state https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300078152/seeing-state