"Legibility" is a distinct reference to Tom C. Scott's Seeing Like a State, and the tendency of states (or other large institutions) to attempt to impose legibi

"Legibility" is a distinct reference to Tom C. Scott's Seeing Like a State, and the tendency of states (or other large institutions) to attempt to impose legibility on complex problems, domains, or systems, usually in an attempt to manage or govern them, but often destroying that which makes them valuable in the first place: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State>.