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Officials of the modern state . . . assess the life of their society by a series of typifications that are always some distance from the full reality these abstractions are meant to capture . . . These typifications are indispensable to statecraft. State simplifications such as maps, censuses, cadastral lists, and standard units of measurement represent techniques for grasping a large and complex reality. – James Scott, Seeing Like a State
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